swarth

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /swɔː(ɹ)ð/ or IPA: /swɔː(ɹ)θ/

Noun

swarth

1. Alternative form of sward

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

   • Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep.

Adjective

swarth

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

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

   • a swarth complexion

Noun

swarth

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

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