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A male whose organs of generation have been so far removed or disorganized, that he is rendered incapable of reproducing his species.
- n. 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.
- vb. To make a eunuch of; to castrate. as a man.
