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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.

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

Under the shore. Smart.

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

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

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

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]

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

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.]

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

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.

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.

To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk. Their wounded steeds . . . Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters. Shak.