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2 شَعّثهُ ذ , inf. n. تَشْعِيثٌ, He rendered it (i. e. hair) [shaggy, or dishevelled, and frouzy: (see 1:) or] matte, or compacted, and dusty: or he rendered him [shaggy, or dishevelled, and frouzy, in his hair: or] matted, or compacted, and dusty, in his hair. (TA.) ― -b2- تَشْعِيثٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The separating, disuniting, dispersing, or scattering, a thing. (S.) And (assumed tropical:) The making to separated like as do rivers and branches. (L.) [Hence,] شعّث رَأْسَ السِّوَاكِ (tropical:) [He made the head of the tooth-stick to become disintegrated; or separated, disunited, or uncompacted, in its component parts or its fibres; or rendered it brushy; by bruising it, battering it, or mangling it by blows: see 1]. (A.) ― -b3- شعّث السَّنَا (tropical:) He took of the straggling branches, or sprigs, of the senna, without pulling it up by the roots. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b4- See also 5, in two places. ― -b5- شعّث النَّاسُ فِى الطَّعْنِ عَلَيْهِ (assumed tropical:) The people took, or began, to impugn his character, censure him, reproach him, or speak against him, by befouling his reputation (بِتَشْعِيثِ عِرْضِهِ). (TA, from a trad.) ― -b6- And شعّث مِنْهُ (assumed tropical:) He detracted from his reputation; syn. غَضَّ مِنْهُ and تَنَقَّصَهُ: from الشَّعَثُ [as inf. n. of 1 in the last of the senses assigned to it above,] meaning اِنْتِشَارُ الأَمْرِ. (L.) ― -b7- And also, inf. n. as above, (assumed tropical:) He repelled from him, or defended him: (K:) or he defended his reputation. (TA.) [Thus it has two contr. meanings.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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