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.