swart

• POS: Adjective, Noun

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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

swart, adj. archaic swarthy, dark-hued.

Etymology

OE sweart f. Gmc

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.