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- English Word Sweat Definition To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers.
- English Word Sweat Definition 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.
- English Word Sweat Definition The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labor; toil; drudgery.
- English Word Sweat Definition Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.
- English Word Sweat Definition The sweating sickness.
- English Word Sweat Definition A short run by a race horse in exercise.
- English Word Sweated Definition of Sweat
- English Word Sweater Definition One who sweats.
- English Word Sweater Definition One who, or that which, causes to sweat
- English Word Sweater Definition A sudorific.
- English Word Sweater Definition A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes.
- English Word Sweater Definition An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.
- English Word Sweatily Definition In a sweaty manner.
- English Word Sweatiness Definition Quality or state of being sweaty.
- English Word Sweating Definition of Sweat
- English Word Sweating Definition a. & n. from Sweat, v.
- English Word Sweaty Definition Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.
- English Word Sweaty Definition Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat.
- English Word Sweaty Definition Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult.
- English Word Swede Definition A native or inhabitant of Sweden.
- English Word Swede Definition A Swedish turnip. See under Turnip.
- English Word Swedenborgian Definition One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things.
- English Word Swedenborgian Definition Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.
- English Word Swedenborgianism Definition The doctrines of the Swedenborgians.
- English Word Swedish Definition Of or pertaining to Sweden or its inhabitants.
- English Word Swedish Definition The language of Swedes.
- English Word Sweeny Definition An atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses; also, atrophy of any muscle in horses.
- English Word Sweep Definition To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively.
- English Word Sweep Definition To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes.
- English Word Sweep Definition To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.