Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Smart \Smart\, 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.
   sm["a]rta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, Ohg. smerzo,
   and probably to L. mordere to bite; cf. Gr. ????, ?????,
   terrible, fearful, Skr. m?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.

   2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or
      grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.

            No creature smarts so little as a fool. --Pope.

            He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
                                                  --Prov. xi.
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