SWART

dusky, dark-skinned, swart, swarthy

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Swart (plural Swarts)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Swart is the 7418^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 4490 individuals. Swart is most common among White (94.65%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Straw, straw, warts

Etymology 1

Adjective

swart (comparative swarter, superlative swartest)

Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.

(UK dialectal) Black.

(obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.

Noun

swart (plural swarts)

(UK dialectal) Black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker.

Etymology 2

Verb

swart (third-person singular simple present swarts, present participle swarting, simple past and past participle swarted)

(transitive) To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.

Etymology 3

Noun

swart (uncountable)

Obsolete spelling of sward.

Anagrams

• Straw, straw, warts

Source: Wiktionary

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Swart, n.

Definition: Sward. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Swart, a. Etym: [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.

Definition: To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. Sir T. Browne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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