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Toward the sun.

To reward to an excessive degree. Bacon.

The giant cactus (Cereus giganteus); -- so named by the Indians of Arizona. Called also saguaro.

urface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. The sward was trim as any garden lawn. Tennyson. Sward pork, bacon in large fitches. [Prov. Eng.]

A plow for turning up grass land.

Covered with sward. Mrs. Browning.

Covered with sward or grass.

imp. of Swear. [Obs. or Poetic] Cophetua sware a royal oath. Tennyson.

To grow languid; to faint. [Scot.] "To swarf for very hunger." Sir W. Scott.

e Shin. [Colloq.] At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.

One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.

Sward. [Obs.] Holinshed.

The black-backed gull (Larus marinus); -- called also swarbie. [Prov. Eng.]

Swart; swarthy. "A swarth complexion." Chapman.

In a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily.

The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.

Swarthiness. [R.] Dr. R. Clerke.

Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces. "A swarthy Ethiope." Shak. Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains. Addison.

Swarthiness. [Obs.]

Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny.