of sweat-to excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.-fig.: to perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.-to emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.-to cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.-to emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.-to unite by heating, after the application of soldier.-to get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.-the fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. see perspiration.-the act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.-moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.-the sweating sickness.-a short run by a race horse in exercise.