Definition of Perspires

1. Verb. (third-person singular of perspire) ¹

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Definition of Perspires

1. perspire [v] - See also: perspire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perspires

perspicuous
perspicuously
perspicuousness
perspirability
perspirable
perspirate
perspiration
perspirations
perspirative
perspiratory
perspiratory glands
perspire
perspired
perspirer
perspirers
perspires (current term)
perspiring
perspiringly
perspiry
perst
perstillation
perstraction
perstractions
perstreperous
perstringe
persuadability
persuadable
persuadableness
persuade
persuaded

Literary usage of Perspires

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Quizzism and Its Key: Quirks and Quibbles from Queer Quarters, a Melange of by Albert Plympton Southwick (1896)
"What animal never perspires ? The dog. Not even in the hottest weather is he ever " bathed in perspiration." He drinks by lapping, and thus avoids the ..."

2. The London Medical and Physical Journal (1827)
"Half-past four PM—Pulse eighty-one; perspires profusely. 27th.—Bowels freely relieved last night. Pulse 110, feeble. Slightly delirious, and has been ..."

3. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"... can only get warm by lying down and covering up, after becoming warm perspires and sleeps. Heat without preceding chill and rarely followed by sweat. ..."

4. Text-book of Homeopathic Materia Medica by George Royal (1920)
"For croup either diphtheritic, membranous or idiopathic, not in the first stage but after the temperature has subsided, the patient is prostrated, perspires ..."

5. A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homoeopathy by Timothy Field Allen (1891)
"perspires easily when at work or in the morning. Clinical. Low types of fever (typhoid), with drowsiness, stupor, sour discharges: tendency to ..."

6. Catarrhal Diseases of the Nasal and Respiratory Organs by Gershom Nelson Brigham (1884)
"perspires easily and without relief (Mer.) • CLINICAL. Mrs. J., a lady, set. about 37, dark complexion and fine physique, took a severe cold while attending ..."

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