Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.