[1] : 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.
      1913 webster

   2. the young of an animal; a whelp. obs.
      1913 webster

            the tigress . . . followeth . . . after her fawns.
                                                  --holland.
      1913 webster

   3. a fawn color.
      1913 webster
see also:
fetus buck 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fawn \fawn\, a.
   of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fawn \fawn\, v. i. cf. f. faonner.
   to bring forth a fawn.
   1913 webster

[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. faegnian 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.
   1913 webster

         you showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like
         hounds.                                  --shak.
   1913 webster

         thou with trembling fear,
         or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.     --milton.
   1913 webster

         courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him.
                                                  --macaulay.
   1913 webster
see also:
fawned fawning fain 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

fawn \fawn\, n.
   a servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. --shak.
   1913 webster

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

fawn
     n 1: a color varying around light grayish brown; "she wore a dun
          raincoat" syn: dun, grayish brown, greyish brown
     2: young deer
     v 1: show submission or fear syn: crawl, creep, cringe, cower,
           grovel
     2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "he is always
        kowtowing to his boss" syn: toady, truckle, bootlick,
         kowtow, kotow, suck up
     3: have fawns; "deer fawn"
see also:
dun grayish brown greyish brown crawl creep cringe 
cower grovel toady truckle bootlick 
kowtow kotow suck up 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

166 moby thesaurus words for "fawn":
   cape elk, virginia deer, abase, antelope, apple-polish,
   be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, beige, bend the knee,
   birdling, blandish, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, brown, brownish,
   brownish-yellow, brunet, buck, butter up, cajole, calf, calve,
   camel, camelopard, caribou, cast, cater to, catling, cave, chick,
   chickling, chicky, chocolate, cinnamon, coax, cocoa, cocoa-brown,
   coffee, coffee-brown, colt, cotton, court, cower, crawl, creep,
   cringe, crouch, cub, curry favor, dance, debase, deer, deerlet,
   defer, demean, doe, dogie, drab, dromedary, drop, duckling, dun,
   dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, eland, elk, fallow deer, farrow,
   fawn-colored, flatter, fledgling, foal, fryer, fuscous, gazelle,
   giraffe, give birth, gnu, gosling, grege, grovel, hart, hartebeest,
   have, have a baby, have young, hazel, hind, invite, kaama, khaki,
   kid, kit, kitten, kneel, kowtow, labor, lamb, lambkin,
   lick the dust, lickspittle, lie in, litter, lurid, make up to,
   moose, mule deer, musk deer, nest, nestling, nut-brown, okapi,
   olive-brown, olive-drab, pander to, piglet, pigling, polliwog,
   pullet, pup, puppy, red deer, reindeer, roe, roe deer, roebuck,
   seal, seal-brown, sepia, shoat, slaver, snuff-colored, sorrel,
   springbok, stag, stoop, submit, suck up to, tadpole, tan, taupe,
   tawny, throw, toadeat, toady, toast, toast-brown, travail, truckle,
   umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, weaner, wheedle, whelp,
   wildebeest, woo, yean, yeanling, yellowish-brown, yield

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