شعث

أَشْعَثُ ذ , (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and أَشْعَثُ الرَّأْسِ, (K,) and ↓ شَعِثٌ, (Mgh, TA,) [and شَعِثُ الرَّأْسِ,] and ↓ شَعْثَانُ, (TA,) and شَعْثَانُ الرَّأْسِ, (K,) applied to a man, (A, Mgh, Msb,) Having the hair shaggy, or dishevelled, and frouzy, or altered in odour, in consequence of its being seldom dressed: (Mgh:) or having the hair defiled with dust, and matted, or compacted, in consequence of its being seldom anointed: (Msb:) or having the head dusty, (S, A, K, TA,) and the hair plucked, and unanointed: (TA:) fem. of the first شَعْثَاآءُ, applied to a woman: (A, Msb:) and شُعْثٌ [is its pl., and] is applied to horses, as meaning [ having shaggy coats, ] not curried: (S:) or dusty by reason of long journeying. (Ham p. 130, [See and ex. from a poet, voce اآيَةٌ.]) The first [or each] is also applied to a head, as meaning Dusty, not renovated [ by dressing or anointing ], nor cleansed. (Msb.) ― -b2- الأَشْعَثُ (tropical:) The wooden peg or stake: (A, K, TA:) so in a verse of El-Kumeyt cited in the first paragraph of art. حف: an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant: (TA:) so called because its head is disintegrated; or separated, disunited, or uncompacted, in its component parts [or its fibres; by its being battered by blows]. (A, * TA.) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) What has dried up of the [ barley-grass called ] بُهْمَى: (K, TA:) [or] it is so called when its prickles have dried. (TA.)