Hypertext Webster Gateway: "swart"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swart \Swart\, n.
Sward. [Obs.] --Holinshed.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swart \Swart\, a. [OE. swart, AS. sweart black; akin to OFries,
OS. & LG. swart, D. zwart, G. schwartz, OHG. swarz, Icel.
svarir, Sw. svart, Dan. sort, Goth. swarts; cf. L. sordes
dirt, sordere to be dirty. Cf. {Sordid}, {Surd}.]
1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. ``Swart
attendants.'' --Trench. ``Swart savage maids.''
--Hawthorne.
A nation strange, with visage swart. --Spenser.
2. Gloomy; malignant. [Obs.] --Milton.
{Swart star}, the Dog Star; -- so called from its appearing
during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the
countenance. [R.] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Swart \Swart\, v. t.
To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. --Sir T.
Browne.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
swart
adj : naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned
beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky
cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face" (`swart' is
archaic) [syn: {dark-skinned}, {dusky}, {swarthy}]
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