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.
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}.
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.