Smart
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
(2): ( v. i.) Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
(3): ( v. i.) 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.
(4): ( v. i.) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
(5): ( v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
(6): ( v. i.) Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
(7): ( v. i.) A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
(8): ( v. i.) Smart money (see below).
(9): ( v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
(10): ( v. i.) Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
(11): ( v. i.) Vigorous; sharp; severe.
(12): ( v. i.) Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.
(13): ( v. i.) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
(14): ( v. t.) To cause a smart in.
(15): ( v. i.) Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
King James Dictionary [2]
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.
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 .
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.
