Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles; as the smart of bodily punishment.

Severe pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as the smart of affliction.

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.

To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain; as, to smart under sufferings.

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 11:15.

Pungent; pricking; causing a keen local pain; as a smart lash or stroke; a smart quality or taste.

Keen; severe; poignant; as smart pain or sufferings.

Quick; vigorous; sharp; severe; as a smart skirmish.

Brisk; fresh; as a smart breeze.

Acute and pertinent; witty; as a smart reply; a smart saying.

Brisk; vivacious; as a smart rhetorician. Who, for the poor renown of being smart, would leave a sting within a brother’s heart?

A cant word for a fellow that affects briskness and vivacity.