Found 2 items, similar to swart.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: swart
swart
adj : 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,
swarthy]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Swart
Swart
\Swart\, v. t.
To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. --Sir T.
Browne.
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Swart
\Swart\, n.
Sward. [Obs.] --Holinshed.
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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.
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A nation strange, with visage swart. --Spenser.
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2. Gloomy; malignant. [Obs.] --Milton.
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Swart star, the Dog Star; -- so called from its appearing
during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the
countenance. [R.] --Milton.
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