Sweat \Sweat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sweat} or {Sweated} (Obs. {Swat}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sweating}.] [OE. sweten, AS. sw[ae]tan, 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.
2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
He 'd have the poets sweat. --Waller.
3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
Sweat \Sweat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sweat} or {Sweated} (Obs. {Swat}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sweating}.] [OE. sweten, AS. sw[ae]tan, 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.
2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
He 'd have the poets sweat. --Waller.
3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
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}.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. --Gen. iii. 19.
2. The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery. --Shak.
3. Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack. --Mortimer.
4. The sweating sickness. [Obs.] --Holinshed.
5. (Man.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.
{Sweat box} (Naut.), a small closet in which refractory men are confined.
{Sweat glands} (Anat.), sudoriferous glands. See under {Sudoriferous}.
{sweat suit} A suit comprising a top and trousers, having full arms and legs, used while performing physical exercises, esp. out-of-doors.
{Sweat equity} The rights to a portion of ownership or profit, hypothetically owned by a worker who participated in producing a product, such as in improving a piece of real estate.
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.
2. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
It made her not a drop for sweat. --Chaucer.
With exercise she sweat ill humors out. --Dryden.
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. [Colloq.]
{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.
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.
In its unanimous decision, the high court said the mere "sweat of the brow" effort in compiling banks of data doesn't qualify a directory for copyright protection.
Campaigns range from sweat shirts printed with imagined UC Merced logos to glitzy promotional videotapes to resolutions by local governments welcoming a new campus.
Maybe what "Scala" and "R&Z" needed most of all was that Rossini speciality, the "aria di sorbetto," a little melody sung by a secondary soloist while listeners revived themselves with refreshments and blotted the sweat stains from their outfits.
It's a laundry hamper full of sweat socks.
Expert riggers who performed the tricky maneuver kept their hands off, fearing sweat or body oils would harm the ancient wood.
And she's not all that taken with Atlanta either: "As soon as you step outside, the hair blows, the sweat starts."
He began to sweat at night," Christian testified.
It paid Dollars 10m for the building, an eight-story former department store turned sweat shop designed by George Post, the architect who designed the New York Stock Exchange.
"All you have to do is look for the puddle of sweat on the floor," Mr. LaBant said.
It may also not ease French interest rates that much, while exacerbating political tensions within the EC. The causes of the current discontents are not just that the EC offers toil, tears and sweat, but that it offers unnecessary toil, tears and sweat.
It may also not ease French interest rates that much, while exacerbating political tensions within the EC. The causes of the current discontents are not just that the EC offers toil, tears and sweat, but that it offers unnecessary toil, tears and sweat.
But first it offers blood, sweat, toil and tears.
As the men worked this day, sweat streamed down their faces from under the plastic safety helmets worn by the 13 black team members and their white supervisor.
Old Wang, who wears a tattered gray suit jacket over blue sweat pants, will challenge him with a "Shanghai 7-Bao."
When Angelika Weitz first walked into a West German store to buy yogurt, she was so overwhelmed by the abundance of flavors she broke out in a cold sweat.
It's doubtful, however, that we will relish similar monkeyshines on the part of characters supposedly shedding blood, sweat and tears in Vietnam.
No riches beckon, but at least it'll mean a break from the sauna and exercise-bike routine he has been using to sweat off the five pounds he's had to lose to make weight after each day's matches.
Therefore, the venture industry has responded to these actions by taking higher financial risks, and employees have decided to keep a safe job rather than to take a risk for some sweat equity.
Early in the 1980s, First Boston Corp. built a $16 million bond-trading floor chiefly with the sweat of its then-preeminent mergers group, which sometimes accounted for as much as half of the firm's earnings.
"We each borrowed $2,000 from relatives and put in $3,000 worth of sweat equity," Mr. Contant says.
With Saturday's ceremony at the State Prison, Utah became the 19th state to allow Indian sweat lodges on prison grounds. Corrections officials had resisted the rituals, arguing they posed a security risk.
The air was thick with the smells of dogs, stale vodka and sweat. Nor had the reforms managed to get rid of the special waiting room for foreigners - a world of incredible comfort far removed from the din, grime, and chaos of the rest of the terminal.
A proposed final dividend of 7.1p lifts the total to 10p, a 10 per cent increase. COMMENT Low & Bonar has begun to make its assets sweat.
The union bid does include "sweat equity" in the form of contract concessions said to be worth $2 billion over five years.
Most packed themselves aboard sweltering buses, rode to work hunched over like Neanderthals and arrived plastered with sweat.
They do not endanger the ozone layer and few cyclists are pulled over for DWI. They do produce sweat, however.
With AM-Remembering Sassy from NEW YORK: Never mind the trifling banter or the continual references to the buckets of sweat that cascaded down her ample frame.
No blood, no sweat, no tears could earn me this high calling." Kathleen Turner declared herself a fervent feminist and risk taker in a commencement speech at Emerson College.
Next weekend she edges modestly into the retail business with the launch of Gatcombe Park polo shirts and sweat shirts. 'People have often asked for them in the past, so it's by way of an experiment,' she said.
The 18,676 partisan screamers in old Chicago Stadium didn't have much to sweat about thereafter.