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Webster 1913 Edition
Sweat
Sweat
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Sweat
or Sweated
(Obs.
Swat
); p. pr. & vb. n.
Sweating
.] [OE.
sweten
, AS. swaetan
, fr. swāt
, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swēt
, D. zweet
, OHG. sweiz
, G. schweiss
, Icel. sviti
, sveiti
, Sw. svett
, Dan. sved
, L. sudor
sweat, sudare
to sweat, Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK], sweat, [GREEK] to sweat, Skr. svēda
sweat, svid
to sweat. √178. Cf. Exude
, Sudary
, Sudorific
.] 1.
To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
Shak.
2.
Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
He ’d have the poets
sweat
. Waller.
3.
To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
Sweat
,Verb.
T.
1.
To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire;
as, his physicians attempted to
. sweat
him by most powerful sudorifics2.
To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
It made her not a drop for
sweat
. Chaucer.
With exercise she
sweat
ill humors out. Dryden.
3.
To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
4.
To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression;
as, to
. sweat
a spendthrift; to sweat
laborers[Colloq.]
To sweat coin
, to remove a portion of a piece of coin, as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by “
sweating
”, or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression. R. Cobden.
1.
(Physiol.)
The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See
Perspiration
. In the
sweat
of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Gen. iii. 19.
2.
The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
Shak.
3.
Moisture issuing from any substance;
as, the
. sweat
of hay or grain in a mow or stackMortimer.
4.
The sweating sickness.
[Obs.]
Holinshed.
5.
(Man.)
A short run by a race horse in exercise.
Sweat box
(Naut.)
, a small closet in which refractory men are confined.
– Sweat glands
(Anat.)
, sudoriferous glands. See under
Sudoriferous
. Webster 1828 Edition
Sweat
SWEAT
,Noun.
1.
The fluid or sensible moisture which issues out of the pores of the skin of an animal. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Gen.3.
2.
Labor; toil; drudgery.3.
Moisture evacuated from any substance; as the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.SWEAT
,Verb.
I.
1.
To emit sensible moisture through the pores of the skin; to perspire. Horses sweat; oxen sweat little or not at all.]2.
To toil; to labor; to drudge. He'd have the poets sweat.
3.
To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.SWEAT
,Verb.
T.
For him the rich Arabia sweats her gums.
1.
To cause to emit moisture from the pores of the skin. His physicians attempted to sweat him by the most powerful sudorifics.They sweat him profusely.