Perspire
[pə'spaɪə] or [pɚ'spaɪɚ]
Definition
(v. i.) To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.
(v. i.) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires.
(v. t.) To emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores.
Checker: Sumner
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Sweat.
Editor: Nell
Definition
v.i. and v.t. to emit or to be emitted as moisture through the pores of the skin: to sweat.—n. Perspirabil′ity.—adj. Perspīr′able capable of being perspired.—v.i. Per′spirāte (rare) to sweat.—n. Perspirā′tion act of perspiring: that which is perspired: moisture given out through the pores of the skin: sweat.—adj. Perspīr′atory pertaining to or causing perspiration.
Typist: Ursula
Examples
- But why do Young Persons in service all perspire at the hands? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And our friend of the perspiring brow is at the far corner there? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I've seen that theer bald head of his a perspiring in the sun, Mas'r Davy, till I a'most thowt it would have melted away. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- When all was snug, and the shop-door fastened, he said to the perspiring Silas: 'I suppose, Mr Wegg, we may now produce the paper? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Thus Slackbridge; gnashing and perspiring after a prodigious sort. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- At last Edison was overpersuaded, and, all dirty and perspiring as he was, received the medal rather than cause the visitor to come again. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Every time a roll was read it was handled by two perspiring hands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fog--Perspiring Fog--ver good--ver good indeed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Checker: Norris