v. i. | 1. | To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. |
| 2. | Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. |
| 3. | To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap. |
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. |
| 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. |
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. |
| 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. |
| 5. | (Man.) A short run by a race horse in exercise. |
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