The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
In its favour may be urged, I. That in healthy persons, in every case of increased action of the heart and arteries, a sweating takes place, and is, seemingly, the means of preventing the bad effects of such increased action.
Mucilage, especially of cocoa.
The gentle heating of vegetables in oil or butter.
present participle and gerund of sweat
From Middle English sweting, swetynge, equivalent to sweat + -ing (gerund ending).
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