SWEATING

perspiration, sweating, diaphoresis, sudation, hidrosis

(noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid; “perspiration is a homeostatic process”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

sweating (countable and uncountable, plural sweatings)

The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.

(botany) Mucilage, especially of cocoa.

(cooking) The gentle heating of vegetables in oil or butter.

Synonyms

• perspiration

Verb

sweating

present participle of sweat

Adjective

sweating (comparative more sweating, superlative most sweating)

Giving off sweat.

Source: Wiktionary

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Sweat"ing,

Definition: a. & n. from Sweat, v. Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory.

– Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness.

– Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper.

– Sweating room. (a) A room for sweating persons. (b) (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices.

– Sweating sickness (Med.), a febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours.

SWEAT

Sweat, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweat or Sweated (Obs. Swat (); p. pr. & vb. n. Sweating.] Etym: [OE. sweten, AS. swætan, fr. swat, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swet, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. sveda 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, 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. 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.

Sweat, n. Etym: [Cf. OE. swot, AS. swat. See Sweat, v. i.]

1. (Physiol.)

Definition: 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.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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