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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
fawn
    n 1: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color;
         "she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish
         brown, fawn]
    2: a young deer
    v 1: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep,
         cringe, cower, grovel]
    2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always
       kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle,
       bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up]
    3: have fawns; "deer fawn"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fawn \Fawn\, a.
   Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fawn \Fawn\, v. i. [Cf. F. faonner.]
   To bring forth a fawn.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fawn \Fawn\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fawned; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Fawning.] [OE. fawnen, fainen, fagnien, to rejoice,
   welcome, flatter, AS. f[ae]gnian to rejoice; akin to Icel.
   fagna to rejoice, welcome. See Fain.]
   To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to
   flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon.
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         You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like
         hounds.                                  --Shak.
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         Thou with trembling fear,
         Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.     --Milton.
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         Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fawn \Fawn\, n. [OF. faon the young one of any beast, a fawn, F.
   faon a fawn, for fedon, fr. L. fetus. See Fetus.]
   1. (Zool.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See
      Buck.
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   2. The young of an animal; a whelp. [Obs.]
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            [The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns.
                                                  --Holland.
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   3. A fawn color.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fawn \Fawn\, n.
   A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. --Shak.
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Thesaurus Results for fawn:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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