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1 شَعِثَ ذ , aor. شَعَثَ , (Msb,) inf. n. شَعَثٌ, (A, Mgh, Msb,) It (hair) was, or became, shaggy, or dishevelled, (A, Mgh,) and frouzy, or altered in odour, (Mgh,) in consequence of its being seldom dressed: (A, Mgh:) or it was, or became, defiled with dust, and matted, or compacted, in consequence of its being seldom anointed: (Msb:) or, accord. to El-Ghooree, it wanted oil, or ointment: (Har p. 50:) and ↓ تشعّت signifies [the same: or] it was, or became, matted, or compacted, (K, TA,) and dusty. (TA.) And the former verb, [and app. ↓ the latter also,] It (the head) was, or became, dusty, not being renovated [by dressing or anointing], nor cleansed. (Msb.) Also the former verb, aor. as above, (L, K, and Ham p. 469,) inf. n. شَعَثٌ (S, L, K, and Ham) and شُعُوثَةٌ, (L and Ham,) He was, or became, shaggy, or dishevelled, in the hair, (JM, PS,) and frouzy, or altered in odour, in consequence of its being seldom dressed: (JM:) or it signifies (or signifies also, JM) he had a dusty head, (S, L, K, JM,) and plucked hair, unanointed; (L;) or he had matted, or compacted, and dusty, hair: (L, and Ham p. 469:) and in like manner ↓ تشعّث . (L.) ― -b2- شَعَثٌ, (Msb,) or ↓ تَشَعُّثٌ , (S, K, TA,) [or each,] also signifies (tropical:) The being separated, or disunited, (S, Msb, K, TA,) and spread out, (Msb,) and uncompacted, (TA,) like as is the head of the سِوَاك [or tooth-stick, by its being bruised, or battered, or mangled by blows]. (Msb, TA.) You say, رَأْسُ السِّوَاكِ ↓ تشعّث , (Msb, TA,) and الوَتِدِ, (A, TA,) (tropical:) The head of the tooth-stick, and of the wooden peg or stake, became disintegrated; or separated, disunited, or uncompacted, in its component parts [or its fibres; or rendered brushy; by its being bruised, or battered, or mangled by blows]. (TA.) And ↓ تشعّثوا (tropical:) They [meaning men] became separated, disunited, dispersed, or scattered. (A.) ― -b3- And شَعِثَ, aor. as above, (TK,) inf. n. شَعَثٌ, said of the state of affairs, (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, dissolved, broken up, discomposed, deranged, disorganized, disordered, or unsettled. (S, * A, * K, * TA, TK. [In the S and A and K, this is placed as the first of all the meanings in this art.; and in the A, it is mentioned among the meanings that are proper, not tropical; but in my opinion it is tropical. See also شَعَثٌ below.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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