Crossword clues for swart
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swart \Swart\, v. t.
To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part.
--Sir T.
Browne.
Swart \Swart\, n.
Sward. [Obs.]
--Holinshed.
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.]
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Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. ``Swart attendants.''
--Trench. ``Swart savage maids.''
--Hawthorne.A nation strange, with visage swart.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English sweart "black, dark," of night, clouds, also figurative, "wicked, infamous," from Proto-Germanic *swarta- (cognates: Old Frisian, Old Saxon, and Middle Dutch swart, Dutch zwart, Old Norse svartr, German schwarz, Gothic swarts "dark-colored, black"), from PIE root *swordo- "dirty, dark, black" (source of sordid). The true Germanic word, surviving in the Continental languages, displaced in English by black. Of skin color of persons from late 14c. Related: Swartest.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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1 Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. 2 (context UK dialectal English) black. 3 (context obsolete English) gloomy; malignant. n. (context UK dialectal English) Black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker. Etymology 2
v
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(context transitive English) To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part; blacken; tan. Etymology 3
n. (obsolete spelling of sward English)
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
Swart is an Afrikaans and Dutch surname. It may refer to:
- Alida Swart (born 1975), British member of Vanilla (band)
- Balie Swart (born 1964), South African rugby union footballer
- Bonje Swart (born 1949), Dutch singer
- Carla Swart (1987–2011), South African road racing cyclist
- Charles Robberts Swart (1894–1982), first president of the Republic of South Africa
- Claudius Claussoen Swart (born 1388), Danish geographer
- Colla Swart (born 1930), South African photographer
- Daryl Swart, South African drummer of Tree63 (band)
- Frank Swart (born 1961), American composer and musician
- Gary Swart, American technology executive
- Jack Swart (born 1954), New Zealand road racing cyclist
- Jan Swart van Groningen (1495–1563), Dutch Renaissance painter
- K. W. Swart (1916–1992), Dutch historian
- Karin Swart, South African cricketer
- Lammert Swart (1847–1909), Dutch general of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army
- Mel Swart (1919–2007), Canadian politician
- Michael Swart (born 1982), Dutch cricketer
- Peter Swart (1752–1829), New York state court judge
- Peter Swart (1946–2000), Zimbabwean cricketer
- Sjaak Swart (born 1938), Dutch footballer
- Stephanus Swart (1890–1927), South African farmer and spree killer
- Stephen Swart (born 1965), New Zealand road racing cyclist
- Steve Swart, South African politician
- Valiant Swart (born 1965), South African rock/folk singer
- Wayne Swart (born 1986), South African rugby player
- William D. Swart (1856–1936), American merchant, manufacturer and politician
Swarts:
- David Swarts, New York politician
- Frédéric Swarts (1866–1940), Belgian chemist
Usage examples of "swart".
While Buller had established himself firmly upon the left of the Boer position, Pole-Carew had moved forward to the north of the railway line, and French had advanced as far as Swart Kopjes upon the Boer right.
From rich sea-islands fringing her green shore, From broad plantations where swart freemen bend Bronzed backs in willing labor, from her store Of golden fruit, from stream, from town, ascend Life-currents of pure health: Her aims shall be subserved with boundless wealth.
Monboddo would unswaddle each, then lift it to the light, his swart face beaming with pride.
Abu Batn, a sullen scowl still further darkening his swart countenance.
Aztec with swart skin, sniffing the aromatic fume coming from the roasting beans, and thinking that beans which smelled so appetising must be good to consume.
The Mexicans swart face turned and his gaze shuttled to the two horses standing hipshot down the face of the ridge a dozen yards away.
Under the hook of the swart sickleman, The band, intrenched in mounds of Turkish dead, Grew weak and few.
It was said that the swart men who dwelt in the Street and congregated in its rotting edifices were the brains of a hideous revolution, that at their word of command many millions of brainless, besotted beasts would stretch forth their noisome talons from the slums of a thousand cities, burning, slaying, and destroying till the land of our fathers should be no more.
Richard, looking around on wild forms with their persons covered with haiks, their countenance swart with the sunbeams, their teeth as white as ivory, their black eyes glancing with fierce and preternatural lustre from under the shade of their turbans, and their dress being in general simple even to meanness.
Great Tourney had opened in the Valley of the Sepulcher upon the plains below the city of Nimmr, a band of swart men in soiled thobs and carrying long matchlocks topped the summit of the pass upon the north side of the valley and looked down upon the City of the Sepulcher and the castle of King Bohun.
Bain makes a mortified sound and reclamps a hand over his big swart face.
Duke Joc'lyn soft replied, And black-avised, swart, knavish rogue beside.
One last glance at the dead Bushwoman convinced him that there was nothing else of interest about her, and Lothar left her lying on her face and turned to the difficult climb up the ravine wall to where Swart Hendrick waited above him.
Two swart Ambonese soldiers challenged me at the entrance, stepping smartly out from behind sandbags.
And there were those who whispered of even stranger blood (if one could properly call it blood) and a monstrous linkage with the swart Protean spawn that had come down with Tsathoggua from elder worlds and exterior dimensions where physiology and geometry had both assumed an altogether inverse trend of development.