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語源 1

名詞

swarth (countable and uncountable, plural swarthes or swarths)

1. Alternative form of sward.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 132, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     Last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swarths.

   • 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson;  […], →OCLC:

     Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep.

語源 2

See swart.

形容詞

swarth (comparative swarther, superlative swarthest)

1. (archaic) swarthy
   • 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XII:

     […] What made those holes and rents
     In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk
     All hope of greenness? […]

   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     a swarth complexion

     The spelling has been modernized.

派生語

語源 3

名詞

swarth

1. An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.

アナグラム

• Warths, warths, wraths

名詞

swarth

1. alternative form of sward

語源 2

名詞

swarth

1. alternative form of swathe (“swath”)