Definition of Swrt
Swart (?), n. Sward. [Obs.]
Holinshed.
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.
Swart, v. t. To make swart or
tawny; as, to swart a living part. Sir T.
Browne.
Swart (?), n. Sward. [Obs.]
Holinshed.
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.
Swart, v. t. To make swart or
tawny; as, to swart a living part. Sir T.
Browne.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (Obsolete) variant spelling of sward.
- The 1913 Webster attributes this to Holinshead, but this still needs to be verified.
- Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
- 1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin - Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be
- 1590: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 2 - A nation strange, with visage swart
- (RQ:Shakespeare John), III-i - Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,
- 1836: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Old Ticonderoga - The merry soldiers footing it with the swart savage maids
- (Obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
- To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part.
- 1646: Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica - the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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