PERSPIRE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.

2.
v.

To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires.

3.
v.

To emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores. Firs . . . perspire a fine balsam of turpentine. Smollett.