أَشْعَثُ

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أَشْعَثُ , and أَشْعَثُ الرَّأْسِ, and شَعِثٌ , [and شَعِثُ الرَّأْسِ,] and شَعْثَانُ , and شَعْثَانُ الرَّأْسِ, applied to a man, Having the hair shaggy, or dishevelled, and frouzy, or altered in odour, in consequence of its being seldom dressed: or having the hair defiled with dust, and matted, or compacted, in consequence of its being seldom anointed: or having the head dusty, and the hair plucked, and unanointed: fem. of the first شَعْثَآءُ, applied to a woman: and شُعْثٌ [is its pl., and] is applied to horses, as meaning [having shaggy coats,] not curried: or dusty by reason of long journeying. (Ham p. 130, [See and ex. from a poet, voce آيَةٌ.]) The first [or each] is also applied to a head, as meaning Dusty, not renovated [by dressing or anointing], nor cleansed.
2 الأَشْعَثُ The wooden peg or stake: 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: 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].
3 And What has dried up of the [barley-grass called] بُهْمَى: [or] it is so called when its prickles have dried.

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