SWEAT
\swˈɛt], \swˈɛt], \s_w_ˈɛ_t]\
Definitions of SWEAT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
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Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
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To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
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To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
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To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
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To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
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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.
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The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
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A short run by a race horse in exercise.
By Oddity Software
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The fluid excreted by the SWEAT GLANDS. It consists of water containing sodium chloride, phosphate, urea, ammonia, and other waste products.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Perspiration; moisture given off by any substance, especially by the pores of the skin; act or state of one who gives off moisture; toil; drudgery.
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To give off moisture, as through the pores of the skin; to perspire; form moisture in drops on the outside, as a glass of water; to labor hard; drudge.
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To cause to perspire freely; to send forth through the pores; to wet with perspiration; colloquially, to employ at hard work for very low and unfair wages.
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Sweaty.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Sweaty.
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To exude moisture through the pores of skin; perspire; hence, to toil.
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Sweater.
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Sensible perspiration, or any moisture resembling it.
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The act or state of sweating.
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Hard labor.
By James Champlin Fernald
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1. Sudor, perspiration, especially sensible perspiration. 2. To perspire.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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The moisture from the skin: labor: drudgery.
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To give out sweat or moisture: to toil.
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To give out, as sweat: to cause to sweat.
By Daniel Lyons
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Moisture which issues through the pores of the skin; perspiration.
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To exude sweat; toil.
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To exude, as sweat; cause to sweat.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The sensible moisture which is exereted from the skin of an animal; labour; toil; drudgery; moisture exuded from any substance.
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To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to toil; to drudge; to emit moisture.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The moisture which appears on the skins of animals in hot weather, or during severe exertion or labour; toil; labour; drudgery.
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To give forth moisture through the pores of the skin; to cause to perspire; to exude; to toil; to drudge.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Sudor-s. Bloody, Sudor cruentus- s. Glands, see Perspiration- s. Root, Polemonium reptans- s. Scab, Crusta genu equinae.
By Robley Dunglison
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Perspiration; liquid excreted by the sudoriparous glands.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The product of secretion from the perspiratory glands, perspiration, a clear, colorless acid, and, when first secreted, odorless liquid, the chief constituents of which are water, chlorids (especially sodium chlorid), fatty substances, and urea.
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In popular language, sensible perspiration.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
