Smart /(smärt)/

imp. & p. p. Smarted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smarting

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.
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.

   He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.

1. To cause a smart in.

1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
2. Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.

   To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart.

   Counsel mitigates the greatest smart.

3. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. [Slang]
4. Smart money (see below). [Canf]

1. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.

   How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience.

2. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
3. Vigorous; sharp; severe.
4. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.]
5. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
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?

   A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart.

7. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
8. Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.