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Eunuch

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Eu″nuch (?), n. [L. eunuchus, Gr. �, prop., keeping or guarding the couch; � couch, bed, + � to have, hold, keep.] A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.