swarth meaning (archaic): definition, etymology and quotations

swarth

adj

/swɔː(ɹ)ð/ · /swɔː(ɹ)θ/

Etymology See swart.

Archaic swarthy

[…] What made those holes and rents In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk All hope of greenness? […]1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XII:
a swarth complexion1614–1615, 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:

noun

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