[sweart], adj., swart, black, dark: nom. sg. wudu-rêc sweart, [3146]; dat. pl. sweartum nihtum, [167].

[sweoðol] (cf. O.H.G. suedan, suethan = cremare; M.H.G. swadem = vapor; and Dietrich in Haupt V., 215), st. m.? n.?, vapor, smoke, smoking flame: dat. sg. ofer swioðole (MS. swic ðole), [3146]. See [swaðul].

[sweofot], st. m., sleep: dat. sg. on sweofote, [1582], [2296].

[sweoloð], st. m., heat, fire, flame: dat. sg. sweoloðe, [1116]. Cf. O.H.G. suilizo, suilizunga = ardor, cauma.

[sweorcan], st. v., to trouble, darken. pres. sg. III. ne him inwit-sorh on sefan sweorceð (darkens his soul), [1738].

for-sweorcan, to grow dark or dim: pres. sg. III. eágena bearhtm for-siteð and for-sworceð, [1768].

ge-sweorcan (intrans.), to darken: pret. sg. niht-helm ge-swearc, [1790].

[sweord, swurd, swyrd], st. n., sword: nom. sg. sweord, [1287], [1290], [1570], [1606], [1616], [1697]; swurd, [891]; acc. sg. sweord, [437], [673], [1559], [1664], [1809], [2253], [2500], etc.; swurd, [539], [1902]; swyrd, [2611], [2988]; instr. sg. sweorde, [561], [574], [680], [2493], [2881]; gen. sg. sweordes, [1107], [2194], [2387]; acc. pl. sweord, [2639]; nom. pl., [3049]; instr. pl. sweordum, [567], [586], [885]; gen. pl. sweorda, [1041], [2937], [2962].—Comp.: gûð-, mâððum-, wæg-sweord.

[sweord], st. f., oath: in comp. âð-sweord (sword-oath?), [2065].

[sweord-bealo], st. n., sword-bale, death by the sword: nom. sg., [1148].