Smart (smärt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smarted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smarting.] [OE. smarten, AS. smeortan; akin to D. smarten, smerten, G. schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, Sw. smärta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, OHG. smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; cf. Gr. smerdnos, smerdaleos, terrible, fearful, Skr. m&rsdot_;d to rub, crush. Cf. Morsel.] 1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart. Chaucer. Shak.
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2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil; as, the team is still smarting from its loss of the championship.
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No creature smarts so little as a fool. Pope.
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He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. xi. 15.
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Smart, n. [OE. smerte. See Smart, v. i.] 1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles. “In pain's smart.” Chaucer.
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2. Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
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To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. Milton.
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Counsel mitigates the greatest smart. Spenser.
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3. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. [Slang] Fielding.
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4. Smart money (see below). [Canf]
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