Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Faun"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Faun \Faun\, n. [L. Faunus, fr. favere to be favorable. See
{Favor}.] (Rom. Myth.)
A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the
satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and
half man.
Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
faun
n : ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed
ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
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