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.

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