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SM'ART, n. [This word is probably formed on the root of L. amarus, bitter, that is, sharp.]

1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles; as the smart of bodily punishment.

2. Severe pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as the smart of affliction.

SM'ART, v.i.

1. To feel a lively pungent pain, particularly a pungent local pain from some piercing or irritating application. Thus Cayeene pepper applied to the tongue makes it smart.

2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain; as, to smart under sufferings.

3. To be punished; to bear penalties or the evil consequences of any thing. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. 11.

SM'ART, a.

1. Pungent; pricking; causing a keen local pain; as a smart lash or stroke; a smart quality or taste.

2. Keen; severe; poignant; as smart pain or sufferings.

3. Quick; vigorous; sharp; severe; as a smart skirmish.

4. Brisk; fresh; as a smart breeze.

5. Acute and pertinent; witty; as a smart reply; a smart saying.

6. Brisk; vivacious; as a smart rhetorician. Who, for the poor renown of being smart, would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

SM'ART, n. A cant word for a fellow that affects briskness and vivacity.



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SM'ART, n. [This word is probably formed on the root of L. amarus, bitter, that is, sharp.]

1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles; as the smart of bodily punishment.

2. Severe pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as the smart of affliction.

SM'ART, v.i.

1. To feel a lively pungent pain, particularly a pungent local pain from some piercing or irritating application. Thus Cayeene pepper applied to the tongue makes it smart.

2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain; as, to smart under sufferings.

3. To be punished; to bear penalties or the evil consequences of any thing. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. 11.

SM'ART, a.

1. Pungent; pricking; causing a keen local pain; as a smart lash or stroke; a smart quality or taste.

2. Keen; severe; poignant; as smart pain or sufferings.

3. Quick; vigorous; sharp; severe; as a smart skirmish.

4. Brisk; fresh; as a smart breeze.

5. Acute and pertinent; witty; as a smart reply; a smart saying.

6. Brisk; vivacious; as a smart rhetorician. Who, for the poor renown of being smart, would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

SM'ART, n. A cant word for a fellow that affects briskness and vivacity.


SMART, a.

  1. Pungent; pricking; causing a keen local pain; as, a smart lash or stroke; a smart quality or taste. – Shak. Granville.
  2. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain or sufferings.
  3. Quick; vigorous; sharp; severe; as, a smart skirmish.
  4. Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
  5. Acute and pertinent; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
  6. Brisk; vivacious; as, a smart rhetorician. Who, for the poor renown of being smart, / Would leave a sting within a brother's heart? – Young.
  7. Dressed in a showy manner.

SMART, n.1 [D. smert; G. schmerz; Dan. smerte. The word is probably formed on the root of L. amarus, bitter, that is, sharp, like Fr. piquant. See the root מרר, Ar. مَرَّ‎‎ marra. Class Mr, No. 7.]

  1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles; as, the smart of bodily punishment.
  2. Severe pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.

SMART, n.2

A cant word for a fellow that affects briskness and vivacity.


SMART, v.i. [Sax. smeortan; D. smerten; G. schmerzen; Dan. smerter.]

  1. To feel a lively pungent pain, particularly a pungent local pain from some piercing or irritating application. Thus Cayenne pepper applied to the tongue makes it smart.
  2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain; to smart under sufferings.
  3. To be punished; to bear penalties or the evil consequences of any thing. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. – Prov. xi.

Smart
  1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.

    Chaucer. Shak.
  2. To cause a smart in.

    "A goad that . . . smarts the flesh." T. Adams.
  3. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.

    "In pain's smart." Chaucer.
  4. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.

    How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience. Shak.

  5. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.

    No creature smarts so little as a fool. Pope.

    He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. xi. 15.

  6. Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.

    To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. Milton.

    Counsel mitigates the greatest smart. Spenser.

  7. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
  8. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.

    [Slang] Fielding.
  9. Vigorous; sharp; severe.

    "Smart skirmishes, in which many fell." Clarendon.
  10. Smart money (see below).

    [Canf]
  11. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.

    [Colloq.]
  12. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.

    "The stars shine smarter." Dryden.
  13. Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.

    Who, for the poor renown of being smart
    Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?     Young.

    A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart. Addison.

  14. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
  15. Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.

    Smart money. (a) Money paid by a person to buy himself off from some unpleasant engagement or some painful situation. (b) (Mil.) Money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the English service, for wounds and injures received; also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service. (c) (Law) Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done. Burrill. Greenleaf. -- Smart ticket, a certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money. [Eng.] Brande *** C.

    Syn. -- Pungent] poignant; sharp; tart; acute; quick; lively; brisk; witty; clever; keen; dashy; showy. -- Smart, Clever. Smart has been much used in New England to describe a person who is intelligent, vigorous, and active; as, a smart young fellow; a smart workman, etc., conciding very nearly with the English sense of clever. The nearest approach to this in England is in such expressions as, he was smart (pungent or witty) in his reply, etc.; but smart and smartness, when applied to persons, more commonly refer to dress; as, a smart appearance; a smart gown, etc.

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Smart

SM'ART, noun [This word is probably formed on the root of Latin amarus, bitter, that is, sharp.]

1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles; as the smart of bodily punishment.

2. Severe pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as the smart of affliction.

SM'ART, verb intransitive

1. To feel a lively pungent pain, particularly a pungent local pain from some piercing or irritating application. Thus Cayeene pepper applied to the tongue makes it smart

2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain; as, to smart under sufferings.

3. To be punished; to bear penalties or the evil consequences of any thing. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Proverbs 11:15.

SM'ART, adjective

1. Pungent; pricking; causing a keen local pain; as a smart lash or stroke; a smart quality or taste.

2. Keen; severe; poignant; as smart pain or sufferings.

3. Quick; vigorous; sharp; severe; as a smart skirmish.

4. Brisk; fresh; as a smart breeze.

5. Acute and pertinent; witty; as a smart reply; a smart saying.

6. Brisk; vivacious; as a smart rhetorician. Who, for the poor renown of being smart would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

SM'ART, noun A cant word for a fellow that affects briskness and vivacity.

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