Swarth

·adj Swart; swarthy.

II. Swarth ·noun Sward; short grass.

III. Swarth ·noun ·see Swath.

IV. Swarth ·noun An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.

swarth
1) the fetch, or ghost, of a dying man ; perhaps from the A. S. SWEART, black, dark, pale, wan. Cumb...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose