2) satyr. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...satyr, (sa´tr, sat´r) (KEY) , in Greek mythology, part bestial, part human creature of the forests and mountains. Satyrs were usually represented as being very hairy...

3) satyr. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
...satyr (SAY-tuhr) [Roman name faun] A creature in classical mythology who was part man and part goat. Satyrs were famous for being constantly drunk and for chasing...

4) satyr. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1. often Satyr Greek Mythology A woodland creature depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. 2....

5) satire, satyr. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...A satire (pronounced SA-TEIR) is a mocking attack on evil and stupidity ; a satyr (pronounced either SAI-tuhr or SA-tuhr) is the oversexed classical woodland figure,...

6) satyr. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993
...See SATIRE. 1...

7) The Man and the Satyr. Aesop. 1909-14. Fables. The Harvard Classics
...A MAN had lost his way in a wood one bitter winter s night. As he was roaming about, a Satyr came up to him, and finding that he had lost his way, promised to give...

8) 17196. Doolittle, Hilda. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:17196 QUOTATION:Most holy Satyr,like a goat,with horns and hoovesto match thy coatof russet brown. ATTRIBUTION:Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Holy...

9) 51278. Shakespeare, William. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:51278 QUOTATION:So excellent a king that was to thisHyperion to a satyr, so loving to my motherThat he might not beteem the winds of heavenVisit her face too...

10) Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Cowley, Abraham
...(1633); Naufragium Joculare, Com dia (1638); Love s Riddle, a Pastoral Comedy (1638); A Satyr against Separativity (1642); A Satyr: the Puritan and the Papist (1643);...