A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + sweat. ] To relieve from perspiration; to ease or cool after exercise or toil. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]