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Swart

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Adjective, Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Swart has 1 sense

swart(s = adj.all) dark-skinned, dusky, swarthy - 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"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Swart, n.

Sward. Holinshed. [1913 Webster]

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.].

Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. [1913 Webster]
"A nation strange, with visage swart." [1913 Webster]
Gloomy; malignant. 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.

Swart, v. t.

To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Swart, adj. archaic swarthy, dark-hued.

Etymology

OE sweart f. Gmc

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ROGET THESAURUS

Swart

Blackness

VB be black, render black, blacken, infuscate, denigrate, blot, blotch, smutch, smirch, darken, black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous, jetty, coal-black, jet-black, fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic, low-toned, low in tone, of the deepest dye, black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight, nocturnal, nigrescent, gray, obscure.