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ἀχα^νής , ές, (χάσκω, χανεῖν)
A.not opening the mouth, of one mute with astonishment, Hegesipp.Com.1.25, Plb.7.17.5, Luc.Icar.23, Alciphr. 3.20; also δι᾽ ἀχανοῦς through a narrow opening, Thphr.Vent.29.
II. yawning, “κρημνός” Timae. 28; “χάσμα” AP9.423 (Bianor), J.AJ7.10.2; without a lid, Hero Aut.28.4; wide-mouthed, “τεῦχος” Diocl. ap. Orib. 5.4.2, cf. Antyll.ib.44.8.12; open, “ἀ. καὶ ἀνώροφος νεώς” D.C.37.17; open, unoccupied, of building land, POxy.1702.3 (iii A. D.); “χάσμα” Parm.1.18; “σκότος” LXX Wi.19.17, cf. Lyr.Anon.in PFay.2ii20; “τὸ ἀχανές” the yawning gulf, Arist.Mete.367a19; “ἡ ἀ. χώρα” Ph.1.7; ἀχανές: τὸ μὴ ἔχον στέγην . . ἐπὶ τοῦ λαβυρίνθου, S.Fr.1030; “ὄψει πάντα ἀχανῆ” PMag.Par.1.1107.
2. generally, vast, immense, “στράτευμα” Plu. 2.866b; “πέλαγος” Id.Cic.6, Jul.Or.4.142c.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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