Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SMALL-GRAIN-ED, a.

Having small grains. – Thompson.

SMALL'ISH, a.

Somewhat small. – Chaucer.

SMALL'NESS, n.

1. Littleness of size or extent; littleness of quantity; as, the smallness of a fly or of a horse; the smallness of a hill.
2. Littleness in degree; as, the smallness of trouble or pain.
3. Littleness in force or strength; weakness; as, smallness of mind or intellectual powers.
4. Fineness; softness; melodiousness; as, the smallness of a female voice.
5. Littleness in amount or value; as, the smallness of the sum.
6. Littleness of importance; inconsiderableness; as, the smallness of an affair.

SMALL-POX', n. [small and pox, pocks.]

An exanthematic disease, consisting of a constitutional febrile affection, and a cutaneous eruption. The cutaneous eruption is first a papule, the top of which becomes a vesicle, and then a pustule, and finally forms a thick crust which sloughs after a certain time, often leaving a pit or scar. This disease is propagated exclusively by contagion or infection, and is very dangerous when it occurs casually. It is called technically, Variola. It has several quite distinct varieties.

SMALL-Y, adv. [small'ly.]

In a little quantity or degree; with minuteness. [Little used.] – Ascham.

SMALT, n. [D. smelten, Dan. smelter, to melt; G. schmelz, from schmelzen, to melt, to smelt; Sw. smält, id.; a word formed on melt.]

Common glass tinged of a fine deep blue by the protoxyd of cobalt.

SMAR'AGD, n. [Gr. σμαραγδος.]

The emerald.

SMAR-AG'DINE, a. [L. smaragdinus, from the Greek.]

Pertaining to emerald; consisting of emerald, or resembling it; of an emerald green.

SMAR-AG'DITE, n.

A mineral; called also green diallage. Ure.

SMAR'IS, n.

A fish of a dark green color. Dict. Nat. Hist.

SMART, a.

1. Pungent; pricking; causing a keen local pain; as, a smart lash or stroke; a smart quality or taste. – Shak. Granville.
2. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain or sufferings.
3. Quick; vigorous; sharp; severe; as, a smart skirmish.
4. Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
5. Acute and pertinent; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
6. Brisk; vivacious; as, a smart rhetorician. Who, for the poor renown of being smart, / Would leave a sting within a brother's heart? – Young.
7. Dressed in a showy manner.

SMART, n.¹ [D. smert; G. schmerz; Dan. smerte. The word is probably formed on the root of L. amarus, bitter, that is, sharp, like Fr. piquant. See the root מרר, Ar. مَرَّ‎‎ marra. Class Mr, No. 7.]

1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles; as, the smart of bodily punishment.
2. Severe pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.

SMART, n.²

A cant word for a fellow that affects briskness and vivacity.

SMART, v.i. [Sax. smeortan; D. smerten; G. schmerzen; Dan. smerter.]

1. To feel a lively pungent pain, particularly a pungent local pain from some piercing or irritating application. Thus Cayenne pepper applied to the tongue makes it smart.
2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain; to smart under sufferings.
3. To be punished; to bear penalties or the evil consequences of any thing. He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. – Prov. xi.

SMART-EN, v.t.

To make smart. [Not in use.]

SMART-ER, a.

More smart. [Comp. of Smart.]

SMART-EST, a.

Most smart. [Sup. of Smart.]

SMAR-TLE, v.i.

To waste away. [Not in use.] – Ray.

SMART-LY, adv.

1. With keen pain; as, to ache smartly.
2. Briskly; sharply; wittily.
3. Vigorously; actively. – Clarendon.

SMART-NESS, n.

1. The quality of being smart or pungent; poignancy; as, the smartness of pain.
2. Quickness; vigor; as, the smartness of a blow. – Boyle.
3. Liveliness; briskness; vivacity; wittiness; as, the smartness of a reply or of a phrase. – Swift.

SMART'-TICK-ET, n.

A certificate given to wounded seamen.

SMART-WEED, n.

A name given to the arse-smart, or Polygonum punctatum, on account of its acrimony, which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.

SMASH, v.t. [probably mash, with a prefix.]

To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush. Here every thing is broken and smashed to pieces. [Vulgar.] – Burke.

SMASH'ED, pp.

Dashed to pieces.

SMASH'ING, n.

State of being smashed.