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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.

The quality or state of being swart.

Swarthy; tawny. [Obs.] Burton.

Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique. Moved contrary with thwart obliquities. Milton.

A disease in sheep, indicated by shaking, trembling, or convulsive motions.

In a thwarting or obstructing manner; so as to thwart.

Transversely; obliquely.

The quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.

Across; athwart. [Obs.] Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. Spenser.

ice or dignity; to attain. Edward IV., who had acceded to the throne in the year 1461. T. Warton. If Frederick had acceded to the supreme power. Morley.

From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

ocess of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

of various kinds. The sides of every street were covered with fresh alures of marble. T. Warton.

An amorous girl or woman; a wanton. [Obs.] J. Warton.

Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism. T. Warton.