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Webster 1913 Edition
Swarth
Webster 1828 Edition
Swarth
SWARTH
, sworth, a.1.
Being of a dark hue; moderately black; tawny. A nation strange with visage swart.
[I believe swart and swarth are never used in the United States, certainly not in New England. Swarthy is a common word.]
2.
Gloomy; malignant. [Not in use.]Definition 2024
swarth
swarth
English
Noun
swarth (countable and uncountable, plural swarthes or swarths)
- Alternative form of sward
- Herman Melville
- Last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swarths.
- Cowper
- Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep.
- Herman Melville
- An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)
Adjective
swarth (comparative more swarth, superlative most swarth)
- (archaic) swarthy
- Chapman
- A swarth complexion.
- Chapman