| 释义 | ▪ I. † diˈshevel, a. Obs.
In 4–5 discheuel(e, disshevele, dysshyuell, 5 dishiuill, (Sc.) dyschowyll.
[Variant of dishevely, a. OF. deschevelé, with final é mute in Eng. Cf. assign n.]
1. Without coif or head-dress; hence, with the hair unconfined and flung about in disorder. Sometimes app. in wider sense: Undressed, in dishabille.
c1381Chaucer Parl. Foules 235 In kyrtelles al discheuel [v.rr. dysshyuell, discheuele, dissheueld, dissheueled, dischieflee] went þei þer. c1385― L.G.W. 1720 Lucretia, This noble wif sat by hire beddys side Discheuele [v.r. disshevely] for no maleyce she ne thoughte. c1470Henry Wallace xi. 1014 Eftyr mydnycht in handis thai haiff him tane, Dyschowyll on sleipe.
2. Of hair: = dishevelled 2.
c1450Crt. of Love 139 And all her haire it shone as gold so fine Dishiuill crispe down hanging at her backe A yard in length.
▪ II. dishevel, v.|dɪˈʃɛvəl|
[perh. a. 16th c. descheveler (Cotgr.), mod. décheveler; but prob. chiefly a back-formation from dishevelled.]
1. trans. To loosen and throw about in disorder (hair and the like); to let (the hair) down.
1598Florio, Dischiomare, to disheuell, to touze ones haire. 1611Cotgr., Descheveler, to discheuell; to pull the haire about the eares. 1618Barnevelt's Apol. D iij, The Peacock when he's viewd disheuels his faire traine. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche ii. ix, They..dishevel May Round Tellus's springing face. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. I. 201 He had been at court in the morning; but though he had changed his clothes, he had omitted to dishevel his hair. 1826Blackw. Mag. XX. 397 She now dishevels..the unsinged beauty of her flowing tresses.
†2. intr. (for refl.) Of hair: To hang loose or in disorder. Obs.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 230 Their haire curling, dishevells oft times about their shoulders. Ibid. 355.
Hence diˈshevelling vbl. n.
a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 244 The..wanton fashion of the womans dissheveling her hair. 1786F. Burney Diary 17 July, Just as I was in the midst of my hair dishevelling, I was summoned. |
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