Word Meanings - SUDATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sweating; perspiring.

Related words: (words related to SUDATORY)

• SWEATY
  1. Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment. 2. Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. Swift. 3. Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. "The sweaty forge." Prior.
• SWEATILY
  In a sweaty manner.
• PERSPIRATORY
  Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts.
• SWEATER
  1. One who sweats. 2. One who, or that which, causes to sweat; as: A sudorific. A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes. An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.
• PERSPIRATION
  1. The act or process of perspiring. 2. That which is excreted through the skin; sweat. Note: A man of average weight throws off through the skin during 24 hours about 18 ounces of water, 300 grains of solid matter, and 400 grains of carbonic acid
• PERSPIRABLE
  1. Capable of being perspired. Sir T. Browne. 2. Emitting perspiration; perspiring. Bacon.
• SWEATING
  a. & n. from Sweat, v. Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. -- Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness. -- Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially
• PERSPIRE
  To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat. 2. To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires.
• SWEAT
  akin to OFries. & OS. swet, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, 1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. Shak. 2. Fig.: To perspire in toil;
• SWEATINESS
  Quality or state of being sweaty.
• PERSPIRATIVE
  Performing the act of perspiration; perspiratory.
• PERSPIRABILITY
  The quality or state of being perspirable.
• UNSWEAT
  To relieve from perspiration; to ease or cool after exercise or toil. Milton.
• BLOODY SWEAT
  A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.