All 5 Uses of
fawn
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Finds, on some grassy lair, the couching fawns, Their bones he cracks, their reeking vitals draws, And grinds the quivering flesh with bloody jaws; The frighted hind beholds, and dares not stay, But swift through rustling thickets bursts her way; All drown'd in sweat, the panting mother flies, And the big tears roll trickling from her eyes.†
Book 11fawns = shows excessive flattery or affection
- A rout undisciplined, a straggling train, Not born to glories of the dusty plain; Like frighted fawns from hill to hill pursued, A prey to every savage of the wood: Shall these, so late who trembled at your name, Invade your camps, involve your ships in flame?†
Book 13 *
- he sent, A fawn his talons truss'd, (divine portent!)†
Book 8
- As two grim lions bear across the lawn, Snatch'd from devouring hounds, a slaughter'd fawn.†
Book 13
- As through the forest, o'er the vale and lawn, The well-breath'd beagle drives the flying fawn, In vain he tries the covert of the brakes, Or deep beneath the trembling thicket shakes; Sure of the vapour in the tainted dews, The certain hound his various maze pursues.†
Book 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(fawn as in: fawned all over her) showing excessive flattery or affection
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
"Fawn" more commonly describes a young deer.