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Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. He 'd have the poets sweat. Waller.

One who sweats.

In a sweaty manner.

Quality or state of being sweaty.

a. & n. from Sweat, v. Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. -- Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness. -- Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper. -- Sweating room. (a) A room for sweating…

Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.

A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

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

ent; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

To descend; to fall; to dismount. [Obs.] And from their sweaty courses did avale. Spenser.

A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. [Obs.]

A drop of sweat or other liquid. "Cold beads of midnight dew." Wordsworth.

Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff. Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing. Shak.

The forehead; as, a feverish brow. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow. Shak.

inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river. Beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow, Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream. Shak.

colorless oils, or white crystalline solids, of an unpleasant odor like that of goats or sweat.

The face; the countenance or its expression. [Obs.] "Sweat of thy cheer." Wyclif.

Causing rapid waste or exhaustion; melting; as, collequative sweats.

The sweating system.