0 a man who has had his testicles removed
1 a man who has been castrated (= had the sex organs that produce sperm removed)
The eunuch Li has been told earnestly to find out the truth and nothing but the truth.
We certainly never ordered that our decision be applied to a eunuch.
Thus, eunuchs could serve as literal intermediaries between mamluks and elite women.
Like men of letters, soldiers and eunuchs, they also redefined the social life of opium.
In the end the eunuch, heard only telephonically, hovers as an unresolved cipher over the movie's apparent safe conclusion.
He would be a political eunuch—an ornament of doubtful constitutional value, rather than a functioning part of the body politic.
