Found 4 hits - Term: swart, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
swart \swart\, n.
sward. obs. --holinshed.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
a nation strange, with visage swart. --spenser.
1913 webster
2. gloomy; malignant. obs. --milton.
1913 webster
swart star, the dog star; -- so called from its appearing
during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the
countenance. r. --milton.
1913 webster
see also:
sordid surd swart star
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
swart \swart\, v. t.
to make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. --sir t.
browne.
1913 webster
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
dark-skinned dusky swarthy
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