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Lively; brisk; sprightly; smart. [Obs.] Shak.

Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty. [Obs.] Shak. Picked dogfish. (Zoöl.) See under Dogfish. -- Picked out, ornamented or relieved with lines, or the like, of a different, usually a lighter, color; as, a carriage body dark green, picked out with red.

Fineness; spruceness; smartness. [Obs.] Too much pickedness is not manly. B. Jonson.

Same as Wharfage. Smart.

To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling. [Slang] Smart. He's pigeoned and undone. Observer.

ative of the Middle States; -- called also swift, brown scorpion, and alligator. -- Pine marten. (Zoöl.) (a) A European weasel (Mustela martes), called also sweet marten, and yellow-breasted marten. (b) The American sable. See Sable. -- Pine moth (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small tortricid moths of the gen…

religious; devout; godly. "Pious hearts." Milton. "Pious poetry." Johnson. Where was the martial brother's pious care Pope.

the ground at the mouth of a pit or mine. -- Pit kiln, an oven for coking coal. -- Pit martin (Zoöl.), the bank swallow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pit of the stomach (Anat.), the depression on the middle line of the epigastric region of the abdomen at the lower end of the sternum; the infrasternal depression. -- Pit saw (Mec…

Having the form of, or resembling, bran. Smart.

glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret.

A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.

or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. Martyn.

Containing many seeds; as, a polyspermous capsule or berry. Martyn.

Cleared and ready for engagement, as a ship. Smart.

To dress or act smartly. [R.]

A genus of swallows including the purple martin. See Martin.

[Obs.] The lovely sorceress mixed, and to the prince Health, peace, and joy propined. C. Smart.

Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.

A combining form prefix signifying first, primary, primordial; as, protomartyr, the first martyr; protomorphic, primitive in form; protoplast, a primordial organism; prototype, protozoan.

The act of prowling. [Colloq.] Smart.