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noun

Sweat n.

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."

2.

The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.

3.

Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.

4.

The sweating sickness. (Obs.)

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.

verb

Sweat v. t.

1.

To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.

2.

To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude. "It made her not a drop for sweat." "With exercise she sweat ill humors out."

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."

Sweat v. i. (past & past part. sweat or sweated, obs. swat; pres. part. sweating)

1.

To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.

2.

Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. "He 'd have the poets sweat."

3.

To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.

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"Sweat" Quotes from Famous Books

... their duty of efficiently keeping the saddle on a horse's back, should be as little liable as possible to hurt the surface on which they press. Hence they should be broad, soft, and constructed so that their tendency to retain sweat between them and the horse's skin may be reduced as far as practicable. They can best fulfil the last-mentioned important condition when they are absorbent and open in texture. It is evident that sweat ...

— The Horsewoman - A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. • Alice M. Hayes

... of the sun, they sent word that cold water should be brought to them. Saint Kiaranus answered them by a messenger, "Choose ye, my brethren, whether ye will drink to quench your thirst for necessity, or will endure in thirst till the evening, that through your labour to-day in thirst and in sweat there may be abundance for the brethren who are to be in this place hereafter; and you yourselves will not fail of reward from God in heaven." The brethren answered, "We choose that there be a sufficiency for our successors, and we to have the reward of our patience and ...

— The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran - Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of - The Celtic Saints • Anonymous

... retribution fell on the Indians; for they were infected with the disease of their victims, and for some months virulent small-pox raged among many of the bands of Creeks and Cherokees. When stricken by the disease, the savages first went into the sweat-houses, and when heated to madness, plunged into the cool streams, ...

— The Winning of the West, Volume Two - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 • Theodore Roosevelt

... day from that term, but that bad conduct, neglect, or inability to perform allotted tasks would result not only in severe punishments but an extension of imprisonment indefinitely, at the pleasure of those who reaped the financial reward from the product of the sweat of the orphans. ...

— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray

... question frew de 'possum inter a pow'ful sweat. If he told de truf an' said he was alibe he knowed well 'nuf dat de bar would gobble him up quicker'n if he'd been a hot ash cake an' a bowl of buttermilk; but if he said he was dead so's de bar wouldn't eat him, de bar, ...

— Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences • Frank R. Stockton

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