FAWN

A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

The young of an animal; a whelp. [Obs.] [The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. Holland.

A fawn color.

Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.

To bring forth a fawn.

To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon. You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds. Shak. Thou with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest. Milton. Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him. Macaulay.

A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.