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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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