Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Smart"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Smart \Smart\, a. [Compar. {Smarter}; superl. {Smartest}.] [OE.
smerte. See {Smart}, v. i.]
1. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or
taste.
How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience.
--Shak.
2. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
3. Vigorous; sharp; severe. ``Smart skirmishes, in which many
fell.'' --Clarendon.
4. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly;
active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.]
5. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. ``The stars shine
smarter.'' --Dryden.
6. 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.
7. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Smart \Smart\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Smarted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Smarting}.] [OE. smarten, AS. smeortan; akin to D. smarten,
smerten, G. schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, SW.
sm["a]rta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, Ohg. smerzo,
and probably to L. mordere to bite; cf. Gr. ????, ?????,
terrible, fearful, Skr. m?d to rub, crush. Cf. {Morsel}.]
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 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Smart \Smart\, v. t.
To cause a smart in. ``A goad that . . . smarts the flesh.''
--T. Adams.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Smart \Smart\, n. [OE. smerte. See {Smart}, v. i.]
1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the
pain from puncture by nettles. ``In pain's smart.''
--Chaucer.
2. 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.
3. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a
dandy. [Slang] --Fielding.
4. Smart money (see below). [Canf]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
smart
adj 1: showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
[ant: {stupid}]
2: elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress";
"a suit of voguish cut" [syn: {chic}, {voguish}]
3: characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some
children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart
children talk earlier than the average" [syn: {bright}]
4: improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me";
"impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an
impudent boy given to insulting strangers" [syn: {fresh},
{impertinent}, {impudent}, {overbold}, {saucy}, {sassy}]
5: of or associated with people of fashion; "the smart set"
6: marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young
man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: {dapper}, {dashing}, {jaunty},
{natty}, {raffish}, {rakish}, {snappy}, {spruce}]
n : a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a
sore [syn: {smarting}]
v : be the source of pain [syn: {ache}, {hurt}]
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