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Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering. "So smirk, so smooth." Spenser.

Quick; short; sharp; smart. Shak.

Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.

Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier. [R.] Shak.

United; consolidated; made firm; strengthened. [Obs.] O martyr souded for virginity! Chaucer.

To spring; to bound; to leap. [Scot.] But when they spang o'er reason's fence, We smart for't at our own expense. Ramsay.

To dispute. [R.] Smart.

To make smart. [Obs.]

In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The piece of timber to which a martyr was affixed to be burned; hence, martyrdom by fire.

A high, proud, stately step or walk. Thus twice before, . . . With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch. Shak. The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped. Spenser.

A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic. The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having been the staple of the Indian trade. Arbuthnot. For the increase of trade and the encouragement of the worthy burgesses…

ical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading t…

a bath. Dryden. Forth as she waddled in the brake, A gray goose stumbled on a snake. C. Smart.

Under the shore. Smart.

for performance of some act; a bondsman; a bail. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. xi. 15.

Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside." Shak.

Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion. Smart.

parts of the skin; it is geatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm. H. N. Martin.

ld and warmth, and so of perceiving differences of temperature in external objects. H. N. Martin.