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خَنَسَ , (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor.
خَنُسَ , (S,)
or
خَنِسَ , (Mgh, Msb,) or both, (K,) inf. n. خُنُوسٌ,
(A,) or خَنْسٌ, (Msb,) or both, (K, TA,) and
خُنَاسٌ, (TA,) He went, or drew, back or backwards; receded; retreated; retired; or retrograded: or he remained behind; held back; hung
back; or lagged behind: syn. تَأَخَّرَ: (S, A, Mgh,
Msb, K:) عَنْهُ from him or it: (S, K:) or مِنْ
بَيْنِ القَوْمِ from among the company of people:
and hid himself: (A:) or and shrank, or drew
himself together: (TA:) and ↓ انخنس signifies
the same; (Msb, K;) and so ↓ اختنس; and
خَنُسَ, aor.
خَنُسَ , is mentioned by Sgh: (TA:) or
خَنَسَ signifies he went back, &c., syn. تأخّر: and
also, he shrank, or drew himself together: (Mgh,
Msb: *) and he hid himself; became hidden or
absent. (TA.) You say, خَنَسَ الكَوْكَبُ (tropical:) The
star returned, or went back, or retrograded:
syn. رَجَعَ; a tropical signification: (A: [and in
the TA it is said that خَنْسٌ is syn. with رُجُوعٌ,
and is tropical in this sense:]) or became hidden,
(K, TA,) like a gazelle in its covert, (TA,) or
like the devil when he hears the mention of God:
(K, TA:) or became concealed in the day-time:
(TA:) and خُنُوسٌ signifies also the being, or becoming, depressed. (Ham p. 332.) And خَنَسَ
عَنِ القَوْمِ He held back, or hung back, from the
company of people; remained behind them, not
going with them; syn, تَخَلَّفَ; (As, on the authority of an Arab of the desert, of the Benoo-
'Okeyl;) as also ↓ انخنس. (K.) [This is said in
the TA to be tropical; but why, I see not.] And
خَنَسَتِ النَّخْلُ (assumed tropical:) The palm-trees were backward to
receive fecundation, (تَأَخَّرَتْ عَنْ قَبُولِ التَّلْقِيحِ,
lit, held back from receiving fecundation,) so
that it had not any effect upon them, and they
did not bear fruit that year. (TA.) And يَخْنِسُ
الشَّيْطَانُ إِذَا سَمِعَ ذِكْرَ ٱللّٰهِ The devil shrinks when
he hears the mention of God. (Msb.) And
خَنَسَ مِنْ بَيْنِ أَصْحَابِهِ He hid himself from among
his companions. (TA.) And خَنَسَ عَنِّى (tropical:) He, or
it, [app. the latter,] became hid from me. (A.)
And خَنَسَ بِهِ He went away with him; took
him away; so that he was not seen; (ISh, K;)
as also تخنّس ↓ به: (K:) and he hid him, or it.
(TA.) ＝
1-A2- See also 4, in four places. ＝
1-A3- خَنِسَ
الأَنْفٌ, aor.
خَنَسَ , (Msb,) inf. n. خَنَسٌ, (S, A, Msb,
K,) The nose was, or became, [camous, or camoys,
i. e.,] depressed in its bone: (Msb:) or depressed in its bone, (A,) or contracted therein,
(TA,) and wide in the end: (A, TA:) or
retiring from the face, with a slight elevation
in the end; (S, K, TA;) خَنَسٌ being nearly the
same as فَطَسٌ: (TA:) or retiring towards the
head, and rising from the lip, not being long nor
prominent: or its bone lay close upon the elevated
part of the cheek, and it was large in the end.
(TA.) See also the inf. n. voce أَخْنَسُ. ―
2-b2- خَنِسَتِ
القَدَمُ, inf. n. خَنَسٌ, The foot was, or became, flat
in the hollow part of the sole, and fleshy. (TA:
but only the inf. n. of the verb in this sense is
there mentioned.)