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ent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart. Chaucer. Shak.

To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up. [Colloq.] She had to go and smarten herself up somewhat. W. Black.

To waste away. [Prov. Eng.]

In a smart manner.

The quality or state of being smart.

An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (P. Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.

Smartweed; water pepper. Dr. Prior.

A kind of cress, a pungent cruciferous plant, including several species of the genus Nasturtium.

One who abdicates. Smart.

On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope.

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral. [R.] Smart.

convex bottom. By sucking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a like noise, springs into its former convex form.

Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc. [Obs.] I made the experiment, setting the moxa where . . . the greatest anger and soreness still continued. Temple.

A little cask, or something resembling one. Smart.

To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth. "Frosts do bite the meads." Shak.

Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.

A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. [Low] Smart.

or taunt; a trick. He that a fool doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolishly, although he smart, Not to seem senseless of the bob. Shak.

Well-dressed; handsome; smart; brave; -- used of persons or their clothing, etc.; as, a braw lad. "A braw new gown." Burns.