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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
smart \smart\, v. t.
   to cause a smart in. "a goad that . . . smarts the flesh."
   --t. adams.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
smart \smart\ smaumrt, 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. smaumrta, d. smart, smert, a pain, g. schmerz, ohg.
   smerzo, and probably to l. mordere to bite; cf. gr.
   smerdno`s, smerdale`os, terrible, fearful, skr. m.rd 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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            no creature smarts so little as a fool. --pope.
      1913 webster

            he that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
                                                  --prov. xi.
                                                  15.
      1913 webster
see also:
smarted smarting morsel 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
smart \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.
      1913 webster

   2. severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart
      of affliction.
      1913 webster

            to stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. --milton.
      1913 webster

            counsel mitigates the greatest smart. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   3. a fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a
      dandy. slang --fielding.
      1913 webster

   4. smart money see below. canf
      1913 webster
see also:
smart 
[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
smart \smart\, a. compar. smarter; superl. smartest. oe.
   smerte. see smart, v. i.
   1. causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or
      taste.
      1913 webster

            how smart lash that speech doth give my conscience.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
      1913 webster

   3. vigorous; sharp; severe. "smart skirmishes, in which many
      fell." --clarendon.
      1913 webster

   4. accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly;
      active; sharp; clever. colloq.
      1913 webster

   5. efficient; vigorous; brilliant. "the stars shine smarter."
      --dryden.
      1913 webster

   6. marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or
      reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart
      saying.
      1913 webster

            who, for the poor renown of being smart
            would leave a sting within a brother's heart?
                                                  --young.
      1913 webster

            a sentence or two, . . . which i thought very smart.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster

   7. pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
      1913 webster

   8. brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
      1913 webster

   smart money.
      a money paid by a person to buy himself off from some
          unpleasant engagement or some painful situation.
      b mil. money allowed to soldiers or sailors, in the
          english service, for wounds and injures received;
          also, a sum paid by a recruit, previous to being sworn
          in, to procure his release from service.
      c law vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond
          a full compensation for the actual injury done.
          --burrill. --greenleaf.

   smart ticket, a certificate given to wounded seamen,
      entitling them to smart money. eng. --brande  c.
      1913 webster

   syn: pungent; poignant; sharp; tart; acute; quick; lively;
        brisk; witty; clever; keen; dashy; showy.

   usage: smart, clever. smart has been much used in new
          england to describe a person who is intelligent,
          vigorous, and active; as, a smart young fellow; a
          smart workman, etc., conciding very nearly with the
          english sense of clever. the nearest approach to this
          in england is in such expressions as, he was smart
          pungent or witty in his reply, etc.; but smart and
          smartness, when applied to persons, more commonly
          refer to dress; as, a smart appearance; a smart gown,
          etc.
          1913 webster
see also:
smarter smartest smart smart money smart ticket clever 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
smart
     adj 1: showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness
            ant: stupid
     2: elegant and stylish; "chic elegance"; "a smart new dress";
        "a suit of voguish cut" syn: chic, voguish
     3: characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some
        children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart
        children talk earlier than the average" syn: bright
     4: improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me";
        "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an
        impudent boy given to insulting strangers" syn: fresh,
        impertinent, impudent, overbold, saucy, sassy
     5: marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young
        man"; "a jaunty red hat" syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty,
         natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce
     n : a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a
         sore syn: smarting
     v : be the source of pain syn: ache, hurt
see also:
stupid chic voguish bright fresh impertinent 
impudent overbold saucy sassy dapper 
dashing jaunty natty raffish rakish 
spiffy snappy spruce smarting ache 
hurt 
[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
302 moby thesaurus words for "smart":
   attic, ache, active, acute, adept, adroit, affect, affliction,
   agile, agonize, ail, alacritous, alert, alive, all the rage,
   all the thing, anal, anguish, animated, apt, astute, attentive,
   au fait, awake, aware, bantering, be resentful, biggety, bite,
   biting, blanch, blench, bluff, bold, booing, brainy, brash, braw,
   breezy, bright, brilliant, brisk, burn, burning, burning pain,
   canny, capable, catcalling, chaffing, cheeky, chic, chutzpadik,
   classy, clever, clothes-conscious, cocky, come home to,
   contemptuous, cosmopolitan, crusty, current, dapper, dashing,
   derisive, derisory, dexterous, dinky, discerning, dispatchful,
   disrespectful, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, droll,
   effective, elegant, energetic, erudite, exclusive, expeditious,
   exquisite, facetious, facy, fashionable, feel hurt, feel pain,
   feel resentment, feel sore, feel the pangs, fire, fleering, flip,
   flippant, fooling, fresh, funny, gally, genteel, gifted, go deep,
   go through one, good, gratuitous, grimace, grinning, harm,
   have a misery, hep, hip, hissing, hooting, humorous, humorsome,
   hurt, impertinent, impudent, in fashion, in style, in vogue,
   ingenious, injury, intelligent, jaunty, jeering, jesting, jocose,
   jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, kidding,
   knowing, knowledgeable, learned, leering, lively, malapert, melt,
   melt the heart, mocking, mod, modern, modish, mordant, move, natty,
   neat, nervy, new, newfashioned, nifty, nimble, nimble-witted,
   no dumbbell, nobby, not born yesterday, nurse resentment, on the,
   on the alert, on the ball, on the job, pain, pang, panning,
   penetrate, perceptive, percipient, perky, perspicacious, pert,
   pierce, pinch, poignant, pointed, popular, posh, pound, prevalent,
   prick, prickle, prompt, pungent, qui vive, quick, quick-thinking,
   quick-witted, quizzical, ragging, railing, rallying, rapier-like,
   razzing, ready, recherche, resent, respectable, ridiculing, right,
   ritzy, roasting, rude, salt, salty, sassy, saucy, savvy,
   scintillating, scoffing, severe, sharp, sharp-witted, shipshape,
   shoot, shrewd, shrink, sizable, sleek, sleepless, slick,
   smart-alecky, smart-ass, smarting, smirking, smug, snappy, snazzy,
   sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, snug, soften, soigne,
   soignee, sophisticated, sparkling, speedy, spiffy, spirited,
   sprightly, spruce, spry, stab, steel-trap, stiff, sting, stinging,
   stir, streetwise, style-conscious, stylish, suffer, suffering,
   swank, swanky, swell, swift, swish, talented, taunting, teasing,
   thrill, throb, tidy, tight, tingle, tingling, touch, touch a chord,
   trenchant, trendy, tricksy, trig, trim, twinge, twitch, twitting,
   unblinking, uncalled-for, unnodding, unsleeping, unwinking,
   up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, urtication, vigorous,
   wakeful, well-cared-for, well-dressed, well-educated, well-groomed,
   well-read, well-versed, whimsical, wide-awake, wince, wise-ass,
   with-it, witty, writhe




[7] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
smart
     self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology hdd, ide, conner,
     ibm, quantum, seagate, wd, "s.m.a.r.t."
     
     

[8] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
smart adj. said of a program that does the right thing in a wide
   variety of complicated circumstances. there is a difference between
   calling a program smart and calling it intelligent; in particular, there
   do not exist any intelligent programs yet -- see ai-complete.
   compare robust smart programs can be brittle.


see also:
right thing ai-complete robust brittle 
[9] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
smart
     
        for ms-dos?
     
        jargon file
     
     
see also:
ms-dos jargon file 
[10] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
smart
     
        1.  said of a program that does the right thing
        in a wide variety of complicated circumstances.  there is a
        difference between calling a program smart and calling it
        intelligent; in particular, there do not exist any intelligent
        programs yet - see ai-complete.
     
        compare robust smart programs can be brittle.
     
        2.  incorporating some kind of digital electronics.
     
        1995-03-28
     
     
see also:
right thing ai-complete robust brittle 

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