fauxbourdont (fobordon)

[Formerly in E. written faburden, faburthen, q. v.; F. faux bourdon, faux, false, + bourdon, bourdon: see bourdon2 and burden3.] Same as faburden. faux jour (fō zhör). [F.: faux, false; jour, day, light: see journal.] In the fine arts, a false light; specifically, light falling upon a picture so hung as to receive it from a different direc =Syn. 1. Incomplete.-2. Culpable, reprehensible, censurable, blameworthy. Satury and fawny more and le e. Chaucer , Troilus, iv. 1544. fause-house (fas'hous), n. [ fause , = E. false , + house .] A framework forming a hollow in a stack of grain for ventilation; the vacancy itself. [Scotch.] faun (fân), n. [ faun , Faunus , in Rom. myth. the protecting deity of agriculture and of shepherds, in later times identified with Pan, and accordingly represented with horns and ing in the side which is fairest exposed to the wind: this goat's feet; hence also in pl. Fauni, the same When the corn is in a doubtful state, by being too green, or wet, the stack builder, by means of old timber, ., makes a large apartment in his stack with an open he calls a fause - house . Burns, Halloween, note. fausent (fa's en), n. [Origin unknown.] A large as Panes , sylvan deities; L. favere , be prop i- tious: see favor .] In Rom.myth., one of a cla kind of eel. of demigods or rural deities, sometimes con- founded with satyrs. The form of the fauns was origi- nally human, but with a short goat's tail, pointed ears, and small horns; later they were represented with the hind legs of a goat, thus taking the type of the Greek Pan. Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long. IMG:content-1146.png:[blocks in formation] Milton , Lycidas, 1. 34. fau e-brayet (fōs'bra), n. [F. fau e - braie , Arise and fly The reeling Faun , the sensual feast. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxviii. fauna (fa'nä), n.; pl. fauna (-ne) or faunas (-näz). [A mod. application of the LL. Fauna, the prophesying sister of Faunus, the rural deity: see faun.] 1. The total of the animal life of a given region or period; the sum of the animals living in a given area or time: a term corresponding to flora in respect of plants: as, the fauna of America; a fo il fauna; the recent fauna; the land and water fauna of the globe. At present our knowledge of the terrestrial faune of past epochs is so slight that no practical difficulty arises from using, as we do, sea reckoning for land time. IMG:content-1147.png:[blocks in formation] Paleontology, as far as I am aware, has thus far failed to show a single unequivocal case of faunal inversion. Science, III. 60. Faunal area, a region zoologically defined by the character of its fauna, as distinguished from its geographical or political boundaries. faunal i a (fa-nā'li-ä), n. pl. [L., neut. pl. of * faunal is, Faunus: see faun.] One of several Roman festivals in honor of the god Faunus. On the 13th of February were the Faunal i a. Encyc . Brit ., IX. 115. faunist (fa'nist), n. [ fauna + -ist .] A student of, or writer upon, a fauna; one who is versed in faunæ; a zoögeographer. Some future faunist , a man of fortune, will, I hope, extend his visits to Ireland: a new field to the naturalist. Gilbert White, Nat. Hist. of Selborne, p. 107. faunistic (fa-nis'tik), a . [ faunist + -ic.] Of, pertaining to, or determined by faunists; relating to a fauna; faunal: as, the faunistic position of an animal (that is, the position a igned to it in a fauna); faunistic methods. In noticing the principal faunistic works we omit the majority of the older and antiquated publications. Encyc. Brit ., XX. 441. faunological (fa-nō-loj'i-kal), a . [ faunology +-ic- al .] Relating or pertaining to faunæ or to faunology. Faunological and systematic zoological world. Nature , XXX. 326.