Swart

Etymology 1
See sward. The 1913 Webster attributes this to Holinshead, but this still needs to be verified.

Etymology 2
swart: from sweart: from  from. Cognate with Dutch zwart, German schwarz, Icelandic svartur, Swedish svart, Danish sort:, Latin sordes dirt, sordere to be dirty. Compare sordid, surd.

Adjective

 * 1) Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
 * 2) * 1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin - Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be
 * 3) * 1590: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 2 - A nation strange, with visage swart
 * , III-i - Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,
 * 1) *1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act II, Scene I, verses 91-92
 * I'll choose a gaoler, whose swart monstrous face
 * Shall be a hell to look upon […]
 * 1) * 1836: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Old Ticonderoga - The merry soldiers footing it with the swart savage maids
 * 2)  Gloomy; malignant.

Derived terms

 * Swart star, (Rare): the Dog Star -- so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance.
 * swarthy

Verb

 * 1)  To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part.
 * 2) * 1646: Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica - the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,

Anagrams

 * Straw, straw, warts

Etymology
zwart.

Adjective
swart


 * 1) black

Etymology 1
From swarte:, from  sweart:, from. Cognate with and  swart:.

Noun

 * 1) Black or dark dyestuff.

Etymology 2
From svartr:. Cognate with svart:.

Adjective

 * 1) Black; swarthy.

Noun
swart


 * 1) black

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