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Peart

Peart \Peart\, a. [A variant of pert, a.] Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day. [O. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

There was a tricksy girl, I wot, albeit clad in gray, As peart as bird, as straight as bolt, as fresh as flowers in May.
--Warner (1592).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
peart

variant of pert (q.v.).

Wiktionary
peart

a. (context UK US in dialects English) lively; active.

Wikipedia
Peart

Peart may refer to:

People
  • Darrell Peart
  • Fred Peart, Baron Peart
  • Jack Peart
  • Joseph Peart, New Zealand army officer and headmaster
  • Neil Peart, drummer of Rush
  • Paul Peart
  • Ron Peart (1920–1999), English professional footballer
  • Vince Peart
  • Michael Peart,Son of Norman and Geneva Peart
Other
  • Peart, California

Category:Surnames

Usage examples of "peart".

She picked up the holobinoculars and replayed the surveillance scan Peart had just completed.

The pair of Tezwan police officers, attired to match the guerrilla sentries on the rooftop, lingered behind Peart, who was leading the strike.

Looking back, Peart waved Fillion and McEwan forward while Chiavelli watched the staircase below.

He and Peart had taken over one of the geosurvey labs and reconfigured it into a sophisticated planetary surveillance center.

Every other light along this street, as far as Peart could see in either direction, hung dark and dormant.

Pausing at a switchback staircase that ascended to the top floor of the building, Peart listened.

Then the walls between Peart and the exit turned to splinters and flames.

Perim hurried in, scanned the room until she found Peart, then walked directly to his side.

Jim Peart took a few hesitant steps into the ready room and stopped just inside the door.

Wriede, have Lieutenant Peart assemble a boarding party in transporter room one.

Picard stood slightly removed from the chaos in the starboard brig while Lieutenant Peart tried to rein in the prisoners, who were engaged in a frenzy of finger-pointing.

When it became clear that fear had rendered Teg mute, Peart addressed all the other prisoners instead.

As each new distress signal was overlapped by two more, Peart realized that the situation on the planet was spinning disastrously out of control.

Turning back to his console, Peart set the phasers to ten percent of normal power and started selecting targets.

Edward sat sprawled in an overstuffed armchair before the fire in the most lavish and most costly suite of rooms in the Clarendon, the same rooms, claimed Peart in uncharacteristic awe, that were always requested by a certain Russian archduchess whenever she came to London.