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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,

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.