'Swart' definitions:
Definition of 'swart'
From: WordNet
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" [syn: dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy]
Definition of 'Swart'
From: GCIDE
- Swart \Swart\, n. Sward. [Obs.] --Holinshed. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Swart'
From: GCIDE
- 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. "Swart attendants." --Trench. "Swart savage maids." --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- A nation strange, with visage swart. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Gloomy; malignant. [Obs.] --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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Swart'
From: GCIDE
- Swart \Swart\, v. t. To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]