v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sweat or Sweated (Obs. Swat ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweating. ] [ OE. sweten, AS. swaetan, fr. swāt, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. swēt, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, sweat, &unr_; to sweat, Skr. svēda sweat, svid to sweat. √178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific. ] 1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. [ 1913 Webster ]

He 'd have the poets sweat. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude. [ 1913 Webster ]

It made her not a drop for sweat. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

With exercise she sweat ill humors out. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OE. swot, AS. swāt. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Gen. iii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The sweating sickness. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Man.) A short run by a race horse in exercise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sweat box (Naut.), a small closet in which refractory men are confined. --
Sweat glands (Anat.), sudoriferous glands. See under Sudoriferous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who sweats. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who, or that which, causes to sweat; as: (a) A sudorific. (b) A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes. (c) An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sweaty manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality or state of being sweaty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Sweat, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Sweatier superl. Sweatiest. ] 1. Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. [ 1913 Webster ]

No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. “The sweaty forge.” Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]