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with intense itching and tingling of the parts affected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat glands, and is often brought on by overheating the skin in hot weather. -- Prickly pear (Bot.), a name given to several plants of the cactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants consisting of fleshy, leafless, usually flatten…

es throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.

smoke; to exhale. Few chimneys reeking you shall espy. Spenser. I found me laid In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. Milton. The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. Macualay.

Act of sweating again.

red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.

To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously. He sweats, Strains his young nerves. Shak. They strain their warbling throats To welcome in the spring. Dryden.

Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.

A sweating. [Obs.]

Sweating; perspiring.

Of or pertaining to sweat; as, sudoral eruptions.

Producing, or secreting, sweat; sudoriparous. Sudoriferous glands (Anat.), small convoluted tubular glands which are situated in the subcutaneous tissues and discharge by minute orifices in the surface of the skin; the sweat glands.

Causing sweat; as, sudorific herbs. -- n.

Consisting of sweat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

imp. of Sweat. Chaucer.

imp. of Sweat. Thomson.

imp. of Sweat. Chaucer.

To exude, like sweat. [R.] Shak.

ve. [Obs. or Archaic] Or swink with his hands and labor. Chaucer. For which men swink and sweat incessantly. Spenser. The swinking crowd at every stroke pant "Ho." Sir Samuel Freguson.

taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe. To take tithing of their blood and sweat. Motley.

A sweating in a tub; a tub fast. [Obs.] Shak.