1. A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion. "A deadly swarm of
hornets." Milton.
2. Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings
under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive. "A swarm of bees."
Chaucer.
3. Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as,
a swarm of meteorites.
Those prodigious swarms that had settled themselves in every part of it [Italy].
Addison. Syn. — Multitude; crowd; throng.
Swarm
(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 Atterbury.
5. To breed multitudes.
Not so thick swarmed once the soil
Bedropped with blood of Gorgon.
Milton. Swarm
(Swarm), v. t. To crowd or throng. Fanshawe.
Swarmspore
(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
(Swart) n. Sward. [Obs.] Holinshed.
Swart
(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.
