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Swarm, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swarmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Swarming.] 1. To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.

2. To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude. Chaucer.

3. To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.

Every place swarms with soldiers.

Spenser.

4. To abound; to be filled (with). Atterbury.

5. To breed multitudes.

Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.

Milton.

Swarm, v. t. To crowd or throng. Fanshawe.

Swarm"spore` (?), n. 1. (Bot.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.

2. (Zoöl.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoöspore.

Swart (?), n. Sward. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Swart (?), a. [OE. swart, AS. sweart black; akin to OFries, OS. & LG. swart, D. zwart, G. schwartz, OHG. swarz, Icel. svarir, Sw. svart, Dan. sort, Goth. swarts; cf. L. sordes dirt, sordere to be dirty. Cf. Sordid, Surd.] 1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. "Swart attendants." Trench. "Swart savage maids." Hawthorne.

A nation strange, with visage swart.

Spenser.

2. Gloomy; malignant. [Obs.] Milton.

Swart star, the Dog Star; -- so called from its appearing during the hot weather of summer, which makes swart the countenance. [R.] Milton.

Swart, v. t. To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part. Sir T. Browne.

Swart"back` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The black-backed gull (Larus marinus); -- called also swarbie. [Prov. Eng.]

Swarth (?), a. Swart; swarthy. "A swarth complexion." Chapman.

Swarth (?), n. An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Swarth, n. [See Sward.] Sward; short grass.

Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep.

Cowper.

Swarth, n. See Swath.

Swarth"i*ly (?), adv. In a swarthy manner; with a tawny hue; duskily.

Swarth"i*ness, n. The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.