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{ } a. [ Obs. ] See Forswat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ware, or articles collectively, made of glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. Turf green with grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. sweard skin, covering; akin to OFries. swarge, D. zwoord, G. schwarte, Icel. svör&unr_;r skin, sward of the earth. ] 1. Skin; covering. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sward was trim as any garden lawn. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sward pork, bacon in large fitches. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Swarded p. pr. & vb. n. Swarding. ] To produce sward upon; to cover, or be covered, with sward. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (a) A plow for turning up grass land. (b) A lawn mower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered with sward. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered with sward or grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Swear. [ Obs. or Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cophetua sware a royal oath. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Swerve. ] To grow languid; to faint. [ Scot. ] “To swarf for very hunger.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Swerve. ] The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To crowd or throng. Fanshawe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Swerve. ] To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. swarm, AS. swearm; akin to D. zwerm, G. schwarm, OHG. swaram, Icel. svarmr a tumult, Sw. svärm a swarm, Dan. svaerm, and G. schwirren to whiz, to buzz, Skr. svar to sound, and perhaps to E. swear. √177. Cf. Swerve, Swirl. ] 1. A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion. “A deadly swarm of hornets.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive. “A swarm of bees.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [ Italy ]. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Multitude; crowd; throng. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Swarmed p. pr. & vb. n. Swarming. ] 1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every place swarms with soldiers. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To abound; to be filled (with). Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To breed multitudes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not so thick swarmed once the soil
Bedropped with blood of Gorgon. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoospore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sward. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. swart, AS. sweart black; akin to OFries, OS. & LG. swart, D. zwart, G. schwartz, OHG. swarz, Icel. svarir, Sw. svart, Dan. sort, Goth. swarts; cf. L. sordes dirt, sordere to be dirty. Cf. Sordid, Surd. ] 1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. “Swart attendants.” Trench. “Swart savage maids.” Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

A nation strange, with visage swart. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gloomy; malignant. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swart star, the Dog Star; -- so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The black-backed gull (Larus marinus); -- called also swarbie. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Swart; swarthy. “A swarth complexion.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith. [ Prov. Eng. ] Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Sward. ] Sward; short grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Swath. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Swarthiness. [ R. ] Dr. R. Clerke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Swarthier superl. Swarthiest. ] [ See Swart, a. ] Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces. “A swarthy Ethiope.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make swarthy. [ Obs. ] Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Swarthiness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat swart, dark, or tawny. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being swart. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Swarthy; tawny. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Swerve. ] 1. To swerve. [ Obs. or Scot. ] Spenser. Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To climb. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & i. To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms. [ R. ] Shak. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]