adj. Smart, painful :-- Ic wylle swingan eów mid ðam smeart-estum swipum, ðæt is, ðæt ic wítnige eów mid ðam wyrstan wíte, Wulfst. 295, 10. [Gif þi sulf one smerte discepline & drauh þet swete likungeinto smeortunge, A. R. 294, 12. Stede and twei sporen and ane smearteȝerd, O. E. Homl. i. 243, 23. Mid smerte smiten of smale longe ȝerden, ii. 207, 6. Me him smæt mid smærte ȝerden, Laym. 20318. If men smot it with a yerde smerte (adv.), Chauc. Prol. 149.]