資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sweat \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.