شَعِثٌ

, applied to hair, Shaggy, or dishevelled: (MA:) [or shaggy, or dishevelled, and frouzy, or altered in odour, in consequence of its being seldom dressed: (see 1, first sentence:)] or defiled with dust, and matted, or compacted, in consequence of its being seldom anointed. (Msb.) And in a similar sense applied to the head of a مِسْوَاك [or tooth-stick, meaning (assumed tropical:) Disintegrated; or separated, disunited, or uncompacted, in its fibres; or rendered brushy; by its being bruised, &c.; and so as applied to the head of a wooden peg or stake; as indicated by an explanation of its verb]. (MA.) [And in the TA it is applied to a plant, as meaning (assumed tropical:) Straggling.] See also أَشْعَثُ.

And (assumed tropical:) A man dirty in the body. (Msb.)