3. Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent. "A very
pert manner." Addison.
The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play.
Cowper.
Pert, v. i. To behave with pertness. [Obs.] Gauden.
Per*tain" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pertained (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pertaining.] [OE. partenen, OF. partenir, fr. L. pertinere to stretch
out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, and Tenable,
and cf. Appertain, Pertinent.] 1. To belong; to have connection with,
or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to
appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
life.
Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth
not to them.
Hayward.