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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
sweat
n 1: salty fluid secreted by sweat glands; "sweat poured off his
brow" [syn: perspiration, sweat, sudor]
2: agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew";
"he's in a sweat about exams" [syn: fret, stew, sweat,
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, sweat]
v 1: excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin;
"Exercise makes one sweat" [syn: sweat, sudate,
perspire]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Sweat \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.
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2. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
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It made her not a drop for sweat. --Chaucer.
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With exercise she sweat ill humors out. --Dryden.
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3. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
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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.]
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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.
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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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Sweat \Sweat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweat or Sweated (Obs.
Swat); p. pr. & vb. n. Sweating.] [OE. sweten, AS.
swaetan, fr. sw[=a]t, n., 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.
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2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
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He 'd have the poets sweat. --Waller.
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3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Sweat \Sweat\, n. [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.
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In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
--Gen. iii.
19.
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2. The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats;
hence, labor; toil; drudgery. --Shak.
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3. Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay
or grain in a mow or stack. --Mortimer.
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4. The sweating sickness. [Obs.] --Holinshed.
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5. (Man.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.
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Sweat box (Naut.), a small closet in which refractory men
are confined.
Sweat glands (Anat.), sudoriferous glands. See under
Sudoriferous.
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Thesaurus Results for sweat:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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