dishevel

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISHEVEL, verb transitive [Latin] To spread the hair loosely; to suffer the hair of the head to hang negligently, and to flow without confinement; used chiefly in the passive participle. DISHEVEL, verb intransitive To spread in disorder.
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