شَعّثهُ

, verbal noun 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.)

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.)

شعّث السَّنَا (tropical:) He took of the straggling branches, or sprigs, of the senna, without pulling it up by the roots. (TA, from a tradition)

See also 5, in two places.

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 tradition)

And شعّث مِنْهُ (assumed tropical:) He detracted from his reputation; synonym غَضَّ مِنْهُ and تَنَقَّصَهُ: from الشَّعَثُ [as verbal noun of 1 in the last of the senses assigned to it above,] meaning اِنْتِشَارُ الأَمْرِ. (L.)

And also, verbal noun as above, (assumed tropical:) He repelled from him, or defended him: (K:) or he defended his reputation. (TA.) [Thus it has two contr. meanings.]