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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,"
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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,"
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