Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Swarthy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make swart; blacken; tan.
- Being of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy: said especially of the skin or complexion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Sward.
- transitive verb To make swart or tawny.
- adjective Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
- adjective obsolete Gloomy; malignant.
- adjective [R.] the Dog Star; -- so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete spelling of
sward . - verb transitive To make swart or
tawny ; as, to swart a living part;blacken ;tan . - adjective Of a
dark hue; moderatelyblack ;swarthy ; tawny. - adjective
Black . - adjective obsolete
Gloomy ;malignant . - noun Black or dark
dyestuff ; something of a certain swart; something of a certainocker .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective naturally having skin of a dark color
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The four were swarthy men, and, unlike the Greeks they were seeking to oppose, their swart was a peculiarity of birth, a racial sign.
The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866
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"Other political parties, like the NP, have nothing else to campaign about and can no longer use their" swart - "and" rooigevaar "tactics and are now reverting to using the" moving parliament gevaar ".
OPPOSITION USING "MOVING PARLIAMENT GEVAAR" AS ELECTION CAMPAIGN 1999
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Jees Uck was of a swart-skinned breed, it is true, but she was not an Indian; nor was she an Eskimo; nor even an Innuit.
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A slender, swart-skinned man, lithe of figure and graceful, stepped forward to the open space before the table.
CHAPTER 26 2010
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And since it has been determined that love is service, and since to renounce is to serve, then Jees Uck, who was merely a woman of a swart-skinned breed, loved with a great love.
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How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be.
CHAPTER 19 2010
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Now, I will photograph the tree in its demise, upended in swart disarray.
The Tree is Farther to the Man Bill Yarrow 2011
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The swart face of the older half-breed flushed angrily, as he drew himself up and promised in good, round terms that he would travel his leader off his legs, and would then be delighted to plant him in the snow.
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Beyond the wide court slept a dark abyss, and into the abyss there poured a white cascade of marble stairways, and widened out below into terraces and balconies with fair white statues on them, and descended again in a wide stairway, and came to lower terraces in the dark, where swart uncertain shapes went to and fro.
"I run off where the drifts get deeper." greygirlbeast 2009
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The swart face of the older half-breed flushed angrily, as he drew himself up and promised in good, round terms that he would travel his leader off his legs, and would then be delighted to plant him in the snow.
yarb commented on the word swart
The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 48
July 25, 2008