خُنْثٌ

a subst. from اِنْخَنَثَ [An affectation of a bending, or of an inclining of the body, from side to side, and of languor, or languidness; or a bending and languidness: or flaccidity or flabbiness, and an affectation of a bending, or of an inclining of the body, from side to side: or effeminacy: or softness, delicacy, tenderness, flabbiness, laxness, or limberness, and an affectation of languor, or languidness]: (S, L:) as also ↓ خِنَاثَةٌ. (Msb.) Jereer says,

أَتُوعِدُنِى وَ أَنْتَ مُجَاشِعِىٌّ

أَرَى فِى خُنْثِ لِحْيَتِكَ اضْطِرَابَا

[Dost thou threaten me, thou being a Mujáshi'ee? I see, in the softness and weakness of thy beard, or in the bending and languidness, or the effeminacy, of thy person, (for the beard is sometimes, by a synecdoche, put for the whole person,) an evidence of unsoundness, uncompactness, or weakness]. (S.)