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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Smart v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smarted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smarting.]
 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.
 2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil; as, the team is still smarting from its loss of the championship.
    No creature smarts so little as a fool.   --Pope.
    He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.   --Prov. xi. 15.