SWART , swort
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To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part.
The black-backed gull (Larus marinus); -- called also swarbie.
1. Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny. In warm climates, the complexion of men is universally swarthy or black. The Moors, Spaniards and Italians are more swarthy than the French, Germans and English.
2. Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains.
3. Black; as the swarthy African.
To make swarthy.
A tawny color.
Swartz
Encyclopedia Britannica
SWARTZ, Olof (1760-1818), a celebrated Swedish botanist, was born in 1760. He commenced his botanical studies in Upsala, under Linnaeus and Thunberg, and began early to make excursions. He made a voyage to America in 1783, visited England in 1788, returned to Sweden in 1789, and was made professor of natural history in Stockholm. He was the author of many systematic works, and largely extended our knowledge of both flowering plants and cryptogams. He died in 1818.
See Sachs, Geschichte d. Botanik.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 22, p. 733
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Blackness Roget’s Thesaurus §431
N. blackness, darkness &c. (want of light), 421, swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, indian ink, india ink
V. be black, render -black, blacken, infuscate, denigrate, blot, blotch, smutch, smirch, darken, black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous, jetty, coal-black, jet-black, fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, ethiopic, low-toned, low in tone, of the deepest dye, black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as november, black as thunder, black as midnight, nocturnal, nigrescent, gray, obscure
Adv. in mourning
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