n. Moisture exuded from the skin, an excretion containing from one to two per cent. of solids, consisting of sodium chlorid, formic, acetic, butyric, and other fatty acids, neutral fats, and cholesterin; sensible perspiration; especially, the excessive perspiration produced by exertion, toil, the operation of sudorific medicines, etc.n. The state of one who sweats or perspires; sweating; especially, such a state produced medicinally; diaphoresis.n. That which causes sweat; labor; toil; drudgery; also, a sudorific medicine.n. That which resembles sweat, as dew; also, moisture exuded from green plants piled in a heap: as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.n. A sweating process, as in tanning hides.n. Sweating-sickness.n. A short run of a horse in exercising him.n. In the manufacture of bricks, tiles, etc., that stage in the burning in which the hydrated oxid of alumina in the clay parts with its water.To excrete sensible moisture from the skin, or as if from the skin; perspire; especially, to perspire excessively.To exude moisture, as green plants piled in a heap; also, to gather moisture from the surrounding air by condensation: as, a new haymow sweats; the clay of newly made bricks sweats; a pitcher of ice-water sweats.To exude as or in the manner of perspiration.To toil; labor; drudge.To labor under a burden as of punishment or extortion; suffer; pay a penalty.To work for starvation wages; also, to carry on work on the sweating or underpaying system.To cause to excrete moisture from the skin, or, figuratively, as if from the skin.To emit, as from the pores; exude; shed.To saturate with sweat; spoil with sweat: as, to sweat one's collar.To extort money from; fleece; bleed; oppress by exactions; underpay, as shop-hands.To put in pledge; pawn.To dry or force moisture from, as the wood in charcoal-burning by covering over the heap closely.In leather manufacturing, to loosen the hair from, as a hide, by subjecting it to putrefactive fermentation in a smoke-house.In tobacco manufacturing, to render elastic, as the leaves, by subjecting them to a slight fermentation.To join by applying heat after soldering.n. In tobacco manufacturing See sweatingn. 10. Same as chuck-luck or chucker-luck.n. A spontaneous fermentation of the tobacco leaf corresponding to the aging of wines. Where the ordinary sweating process has not been fully carried through this is intentionally maintained. See sweating, 5.In tobacco manufacturing, to undergo the process of sweating. See sweating.