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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sweat \Sweat\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Sweat} or {Sweated} (Obs. {Swat}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sweating}.] [OE. sweten, AS. sw[ae]tan, fr. sw[=a]t, noun, sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. sw[=e]t, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. ?, ?, sweat, ? to sweat, Skr. sv[=e]da sweat, svid to sweat. [root]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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sweat \Sweat\, noun [Cf. OE. swot, AS. sw[=a]t. See {Sweat}, v. i.]
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 stack. --Mortimer.
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}.
{sweat suit} A suit comprising a top and trousers, having full arms and legs, used while performing physical exercises, esp. out-of-doors.
{Sweat equity} The rights to a portion of ownership or profit, hypothetically owned by a worker who participated in producing a product, such as in improving a piece of real estate.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sweat \Sweat\, verb (used with an object)
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. --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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sweat
noun
1: salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; "sweat poured off his brow" [syn: {perspiration}, {sudor}]
2: agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams" [syn: {fret}, {stew}, {lather}, {swither}]
3: condensation of moisture on a cold surface; "the cold glasses were streaked with sweat"
4: use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn: {effort}, {elbow grease}, {exertion}, {travail}]
verb: excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; "Exercise makes one sweat" [syn: {sudate}, {perspire}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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