Word Meanings - CALLIDITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.

SMARTWEED
An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum , which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
CUNNINGNESS
Quality of being cunning; craft.
DISCERNMENT
1. The act of discerning. 2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness;
CALLIDITY
Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.
ACUTENESS
Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. Syn. -- Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness. (more info) 1. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
SMARTLY
In a smart manner.
SMARTNESS
The quality or state of being smart.
SMART
schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, SW. smärta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, Ohg. smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; 1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my
SMARTLE
To waste away.
SMARTEN
To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up. She had to go and smarten herself up somewhat. W. Black.
NOSESMART
A kind of cress, a pungent cruciferous plant, including several species of the genus Nasturtium.
UNCUNNINGNESS
Ignorance.
ARSESMART
Smartweed; water pepper. Dr. Prior.