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 Sweat, v. t.
 1. To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
 2. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.
    It made her not a drop for sweat.   --Chaucer.
    With exercise she sweat ill humors out.   --Dryden.
 3. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
 4. To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers. [Colloq.]
 To sweat coin, to remove a portion of a piece of coin, as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
    The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by =\“sweating”, or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression.\=   --R. Cobden.