Definition of swart:
(adj) :
of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny; gloomy; malignant
"1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin - Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be"
(v) :
to make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part
"1646: Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica - the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,"
Definition of swart:
(adj) :
of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny; gloomy; malignant
"1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin - Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be"
(v) :
to make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part
"1646: Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica - the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,"