Swart : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Swart	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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" Synonym(s): dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy
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. [bd]Swart attendants.[b8] --Trench. [bd]Swart savage maids.[b8] --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.