SWEAT (2)

sweat (2). Sweat, v. sweat, sweated, pret. and pa. to emit or put into a sweat, warm, drudge, toil, labor

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Sweat, v. t. 1. 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. 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. 3. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
4. 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.
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 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.