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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. Spenser.

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.

The quality or state of being swart.

Swarthy; tawny. [Obs.] Burton.

See Forswat.

One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

Dark-visaged; swart.

A columnar cactaceous plant of the West Indies (Cereus Swartzii).

Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy. Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. Pierpont. Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. Keble. Dun crow (Zoöl.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Dun diver (Zoö…

lls of two species; one fierce and malevolent, the other gentle, See Kobold. No goblin or swart fairy of the mine Hath hurtful power over true virginity. Milton.

Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. "In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous." Internat. Cyc.

The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family (Moschoxylum Swartzii).

To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.