swart

adj

1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.

   “1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be”

   “A nation strange, with visage swart”

   “Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,”

   “Of shades , and wanton winds , and gushing brooks , On whose fresh lap the swart - star sparely looks”

   “I'll choose a gaoler, whose swart monstrous face Shall be a hell to look upon […]”

2. (UK, dialectal)Black.
3. (obsolete)Gloomy; malignant.

   “Suddenly the swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!””

noun

1. (UK, dialectal)Black or dark dyestuff.
2. (alt-of, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete spelling of sward.

   “Howbeit where the rocks and quarrie grounds are, I take the swart of the earth to be so thin, that no tree of anie greatnesse, other than shrubs and bushes, is able to grow or prosper long therein for want of sufficient moisture wherewith to feed them with fresh humour, or at the leastwise of mould […]”

3. (Ireland, alt-of, alternative, dialectal)Variant of swath.

verb

1. (transitive)To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.

   “to swart a living part”

   “[…] the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,”

name

1. A surname.