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Webster's English Dictionary

smart

v. i. [OE. smarten, AS. smeortan; akin to D. smarten, smerten, G. schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, Sw. smrta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, OHG. smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; cf. Gr. smerdno`s, smerdale`os, terrible, fearful, Skr. md 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; as, the team is still smarting from its loss of the championship. ()

No creature smarts so little as a fool. (Pope.)

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

v. t. To cause a smart in. (T. Adams.)

n. [OE. smerte. See Smart, v. i.]1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles. (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. (Fielding.)

4. Smart money (see below). ()

a. [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. (Clarendon.)

4. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. ()

5. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. (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. ()

8. 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. ()

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