خنس

1 خَنَسَ أخنس خنس , (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 اـِذَا سَمِعَ ذِكْرَ ا@للّٰهِ 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 به ↓ تخنّس: (K:) and he hid him, or it. (TA.) -A2- See also 4, in four places. -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. ― -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.)