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born on the fourth day of the month, or one who reverenced four persons in the Godhead. Smart.

speeches destroy good thews. Wyclif (1 Cor. xv. 33). To be upbrought in gentle thews and martial might. Spenser.

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer. [Written also timbre.]

To kindle; to rage; to smart. [Obs.] Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine. Spenser.

To dress or smarten up; to spruce. --Tit`i*va"tion, Tit`ti*va"tion (#), n. [Both Humorous]

any instrument of use or service. That angry fool . . . Whipping her house, did with his amarting tool Oft whip her dainty self. Spenser.

To wash, as tin ore, with a shovel in a frame fitted for the purpose. Smart.

eir eggs in holes in dead trees. They inhabit Australia and adjacent regions. Called also martin in Australia. -- Tree swift (Zoöl.), any one of several species of swifts of the genus Dendrochelidon which inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. -- Tree tiger (Zoöl.), a leopard. -- Tree toad (Zoöl.), any one of nu…

Divided into three parts, or into threes; three-forked; as, a trichotomous stem. Martyn.

The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness. Their spars had no man-of-war trigness. Kane.

To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. [Colloq.]

Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland, about 1879.

To excite; to rouse; to move to action; to awaken. Then Homer's and Tyrtæus' martial muse Wakened the world. Roscommon. Venus now wakes, and wakens love. Milton. They introduce Their sacred song, and waken raptures high. Milton.

A small stick; a rod; a verge. With good smart blows of a wand on his back. Locke.

Belonging or relating to war; military; martial. The great archangel from his warlike toil Surceased. Milton.

Smartweed.

To strike anything with a smart blow. To whack away, to continue striking heavy blows; as, to whack away at a log. [Colloq.]

A blow, or quick, smart stroke.

The sand martin, or bank swallow. [Prov. Eng.]

A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness. A beau and witing perished in the forming. Pope. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! Goldsmith.