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Sweat   /swɛt/   Listen
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



... triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayer of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes. Woe unto the ...
— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter
... fight ended, he was very pale, and sweat stood in great drops upon his forehead; but in every line of his figure was firmness. Erect and steadily—with something of the feeling, as he bethought him, that had upheld him once when leading his men upon ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 • Various
... prisoner by the feet, swearing in a language of his own. The Yankee desperado took his shoulders, and together, with earnest grunts, they followed the man with the lantern, Truxton knew not whither except that it was away from the wretched sweat-hole. ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... "Sweat it out right now!" ordered Mickey. "When people do things for you 'cause they are sorry for you, it's up to you to be polite, to pay back with manners at ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... purchased on the Nith: aided by a westland farmer, he selected Ellisland, a beautiful spot, fit alike for the steps of ploughman or poet. On intimating this to the magnates of Edinburgh, no one lamented that a genius so bright and original should be driven to win his bread with the sweat of his brow: no one, with an indignant eye, ventured to tell those to whom the patronage of this magnificent empire was confided, that they were misusing the sacred trust, and that posterity would curse them ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham


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