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Of or pertaining to obits, or days when obits are celebrated; as, obitual days. Smart.

An opuscule. Smart.

functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart. "The pain of Jesus Christ." Chaucer.

A parenthetical notice, usually of matter to be afterward expanded. Smart.

A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. Smart.

Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day. [O. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] There was a tricksy girl, I wot, albeit clad in gray, As peart as bird, as straight as bolt, as fresh as flowers in May. Warner (1592).

To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination. Flame percussed by air giveth a noise. Bacon.

To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head. Cowper. Sherburne.

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.

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

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

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

To dress or act smartly. [R.]

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

The act of prowling. [Colloq.] Smart.

One who believes that Christ was a mere man. Smart.