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SWEAT, n. swet. L. sudor.
1. The fluid or sensible moisture which issues out of the pores of the skin of an animal.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Genesis 3
2. Labor toil drudgery.
3. Moisture evacuated from any substance as the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
SWEAT, swet. pret. and pp. sweat or sweated. Swot is obsolete. L. sudo.
1. To emit sensible moisture through the pores of the skin to perspire. Horses sweat oxen sweat little or not at all.
2. To toil to labor to drudge.
He'd have the poets sweat.
3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
SWEAT, swet. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores to exsude.
For him the rich Arabia sweats her gums.
1. To cause to emit moisture from the pores of the skin. His physicians attempted to sweat him by the most powerful sudorifics.
They sweat him profusely.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Sweat'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/sweat.html.
Entry for 'Sweat'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/sweat.html.