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Smart; spruce; trim; nice. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

See Grub, n., 1. And gnats and grubworms crowded on his view. C. Smart.

See Haulm, stalk. Smart.

See Hoarding, 2. Smart.

ojection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm. Smart.

To cut short like bristles; as, to hog the mane of a horse. Smart.

A species (Polygonum Hydropiper) of knotweed with acrid foliage; water pepper; smartweed.

Strongly affected. Smart.

Want of completion; incompleteness. Smart.

One who indites. Smart.

Anything that intoxicates, as opium, alcohol, etc.; an intoxicant. Smart.

A shining between or among. [R.] Smart.

so, suddenly thrown out; uttered in short sentences; ejaculatory; as, jaculatory prayers. Smart.

Spruce. [Slang, Eng.] Smart.

To strike smartly; to rap; to snap. Bacon.

Acuteness; smartness; also, a smart trick or stratagem.[Obs.] Stanihurst.

To take luncheon. Smart.

ual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. Smart. -- Maiden name, the surname of a woman before her marriage. -- Maiden pink. (Bot.) See under Pink. -- Maiden plum (Bot.), a West Indian tree (Comocladia integrifolia) with purplish drupes. The sap of the tree is glutinou…

rture. Chaucer. The lovely Amoret, whose gentle heart Thou martyrest with sorrow and with smart. Spenser. Racked with sciatics, martyred with the stone. Pope.

To do wrong; to commit a fault. I have misdone, and I endure the smart. Dryden.