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An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants. Fig wart, Moist wart (Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Ca…

Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacochoerus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long…

Having little knobs on the surface; verrucose; as, a warted capsule.

Having no wart.

Same as Wartwort.

A name given to several plants because they were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis).

Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf.

An American fresh-water mussel (Quadrula pustulosa). Its shell is used in making buttons.

Across; from side to side of. Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

See Forswat.

Having a transverse position; placed or situated across; hence, opposite. "Our overthwart neighbors." Dryden.

In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. [Obs.] Peacham.

The state of being overthwart; perverseness. [Obs.] Lord Herbert.

Brave; bold; strong; redoubted; daring; vehement; violent. "A stalwart tiller of the soil." Prof. Wilson. Fair man be was and wise, stalworth and bold. R. of Brunne.

In a stalwart manner.

The quality of being stalwart.

An overseer or superintendent. [R.] "The stewartry of provisions." Tooke.

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.