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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SWARTH'Y, a. [See Swart.] Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny. In warm climates, the complexion of men is universally swarthy or black. The Moors, Spaniards and Italians are more swarthy than the French, Germans and English.
Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains.
1. Black; as the swarthy African.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic" [syn: dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (swarthier; -est) Etymology: alteration of obsolete swarty, from swart Date: 1587 of a dark color, complexion, or cast • swarthiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (swarthier, swarthiest) dark, dark-complexioned. Derivatives: swarthily adv. swarthiness n. Etymology: var. of obs. swarty (as SWART)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Swarthy Swarth"y, v. t. To make swarthy. [Obs.] --Cowley.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Swarthy Swarth"y, 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. Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains. --Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A swarthy person has a dark face. He had a broad swarthy face. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Dark, dark-skinned, dark-hued, brown, tawny, of a dark complexion.

Moby Thesaurus

black, blackish, brunet, coal-black, dark, dark-colored, dark-skinned, darkish, darksome, dusk, dusky, ebon, ebony, funereal, grave, nigrescent, pitch-black, raven, sable, sad, sober, somber, sombrous, swart, swarth