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swarty, a. Now rare or Obs.|ˈswɔːtɪ|
[f. swart a. + -y1.]
= swarthy a.1
1572J. Jones Bathes Buckstone 1 b, It should not onely bee of another collour marly yellow, or swarty greene. 1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 72 With black weede the altar is hanged, With tree swartye Cipers. 1600Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iii. 72 (Qo.) Your swartie [Folios swarth] Cymerion. 1609Healey Discov. New World i. xii. 55 A stonie, swartie, barren, Grass-lesse, sandie soyle. 1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. i. v, The swarty Smith spits in his Buckhorne fist. 1656Heylin Surv. France 205 A beard..black and swarty. 1888Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta II. 69 Before us appeared that great craggy blackness—the Harra, and thereupon certain swarty hills and crests.
Comb.1635R. N. tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. ii. 189 Frobisher..under the Latitude of 63 degrees..found men..swarty coloured. |