smart

To hurt or sting.

After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"

He moved convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully."

To cause a smart or sting in.

A goad that […] smarts the flesh.

To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.

You think this cruel? take it for a rule, / No creature ſmarts ſo little as a Fool.

He that is ſurety for a ſtranger ſhall ſmart for it.

Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.

I always preferred the church, and I still do. But that was not smart enough for my family. They recommended the army. That was a great deal too smart for me.

Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.

Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology).

smart car

smartcard

Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable.

a smart outfit

You look smart in that business suit.

Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.

He became tired of his girlfriend's smart remarks.

Don't get smart with me!

A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.

[…] the bodie had no smart / Of any wound: it was the minde that felt the cruell stings.

If chance some Shepherd with a distant Dart / The Savage wound, he rowzes at the Smart, / He foams, he roars […]

Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.

Mishaps are maistred by aduice discrete, / And counsell mitigates the greatest smart; / Found neuer help, who neuer would his hurts impart.

But oh why didst thou not stay here below / To bless us with thy heav’n lov’d innocence, […] / To stand ’twixt us and our deserved smart / But thou canst best perform that office where thou art.

Clipping of smart money.

A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.

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