Swarth

//swɔː(ɹ)ð// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    swarthy archaic

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

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of sward. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.

Etymology

See swart.

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