01 a. & n. Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to ind…
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Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.
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Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.“The literary prigs epicene.” — Prof. Wilson.“He represented an epicene species, neither churchman nor layman.” — J. A. Symonds.