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n. the production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.

v. Present participle of sweat.

adj. of or relating to one who is sweating

a. & n. from sweat, v.

n. The act of perspiring; profuse perspiration; also, the process of producing profuse perspiration by means of sudorifics, hot baths, etc.

n. Same as sweating system (which see, under sweating, p. a.).

n. The process of producing exudation or oozing of moisture by application of heat either dry or moist.

n. Specifically, in tanning, a process of removing hair from hides by exposing them to moist air.

Perspiring freely or profusely.

Of or pertaining to the employment of persons, as to make clothes, at the lowest wages.

n. Specifically, in the tobacco trade, the fermenting, in either the active or passive sense, of tobacco leaves, a process which follows that of curing or drying, and consists of further evaporation with chemical changes due, as shown by Loew, to the activity of two oxidizing enzymes.

n. In the refining of paraffin from petroleum or bituminous shale, a process of fractional fusion in which the crude paraffin-scale in blocks is placed in a chamber heated by steam-pipes to a temperature a few degrees below the point at which the whole would melt, the more fusible part drained away, and the still solid portion afterward melted down at a higher temperature and decolorized by means of animal charcoal.

n. the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid

"But now a different kind of sweating is taking place behind heavy dark wooden doors and under the bright lights of a downtown Los Angeles grand jury room."

bodily function    bodily process    body process    activity   

sweating system   

sweat   

polyhidrosis    hyperidrosis    hyperhidrosis   

perspiration   

sweat   

abetting    begetting    besetting    betting    fetting    forgetting    fretting    getting    jetting    letting