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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)