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The act or process of perspiring.

A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. Dunglison.

Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.

ous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.

he state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot.

Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.

A medicine or agent which promotes perspiration.

Having the power to increase perspiration.

Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic. -- n.

To excrete; to throw off through the pores; as, fluids are excerned in perspiration. [R.] Bacon.

Excretion of sweat; perspiration.

Causing perspiration; diaphoretic or sudorific.

Emitting perspiration; perspiring. [R.] Bacon.

Performing the act of perspiration; perspiratory.

Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts.

orless, 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.

the body; as, pulmonary transpiration, or the excretion of aqueous vapor from the lungs. Perspiration is a form of transpiration. Cudworth.

To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.

To relieve from perspiration; to ease or cool after exercise or toil. [R.] Milton.