Small"age (?), n. [Small + F. ache smallage. See Ach parsley.] (Bot.) A
biennial umbelliferous plant (Apium graveolens) native of the seacoats
of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous
properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
Small"clothes` (?), n. pl. A man's garment for the hips and thighs;
breeches. See Breeches.
Small"ish, a. Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
Small"ness, n. The quality or state of being small.
Small"pox` (?), n. [Small + pox, pocks.] (Med.) A contagious,
constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption;
variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules
which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then
pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time,
often leaving a pit, or scar.
Smalls (?), n. pl. See Small, n., 2, 3.
Small"sword` (?), n. A light sword used for thrusting only; especially,
the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
Smal"ly (?), adv. In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. [R.]
Ascham.
Smalt (?), n. [It. smalto, LL. smaltum; of Teutonic origin; cf. OHG.
smalz grease, butter, G. schmalz grease, OHG. smelzan to melt, G.
schmelzen. See Smelt, v. t., and cf. Amel, Enamel.] A deep blue pigment
or coloring material used in various arts. It is a vitreous substance
made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a
powder.
Smalt"-blue` (?), a. Deep blue, like smalt.
{ Smalt"ine (?), Smalt"ite (?), } n. [See Smalt.] (Min.) A tin- white
or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt,
nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt.
Smar"agd (?), n. [L. smaragdus. See Emerald.] The emerald. [Obs.] Bale.
Sma*rag"dine (?), a. [L. smaragdinus, Gr. &?;&?;&?;&?;.] Of or
pertaining to emerald; resembling emerald; of an emerald green.
Sma*rag"dite (?), n. [Cf. F. smaragdite; -- so called from its
emerald-green color. See Smaragd.] (Min.) A green foliated kind of
amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.
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. smärta, 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. 15.
Smart, v. t. To cause a smart in. "A goad that . . . smarts the flesh."
T. Adams.
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.
2. Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of
affliction.
To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart.
Milton.
Counsel mitigates the greatest smart.
Spenser.
3. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
[Slang] Fielding.