单词 | perspire |
释义 | perspirev. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > of something confined > in the form of vapour oozea1387 perspire1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 196 A man in the morning is lighter in the scale, because in sleep some pounds have perspired . View more context for this quotation 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ i. 7 This Spiritus Mundi..in some places perspires more freely than in other, and causes that different verdant colour of the Grass in certain rings or circles, where the Countrey people fancy the Fairies dance. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 145 [Heat] perspiring forth at the same Outlets with the Water. 1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 268 I let them stand till toward Midsummer, and took no farther care, but now and then giving them fresh Water as it perspired or evaporated. 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) I. xiv. 436 The water will perspire through the pores of the cup. 1885 Littell's Living Age 13 June 702/2 The Chinese idea is that they live on dew, and that the wax perspires from the bodies of the insects. b. transitive. To give off (moisture) through pores, either imperceptibly as vapour, or visibly as liquid. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > letting or forcing out (a substance, etc.) > let or force out (a substance, etc.) [verb (transitive)] eliminate1628 extravasate1669 perspire1699 extravase1703 1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 175 The Blood of that fineness, that is necessary for it to be perspired. 1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 88 But when the great quantity of Chyle is perspir'd,..the Spirits are more increas'd, and the Blood is well rarify'd. 1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry iii. xii. 388 To perspire off the crudities of the sap. 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 141 The matter he perspired generally smelt sour. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 67 The liquor perspired becomes sensible to us by being collected from a branch introduced into any sufficiently capacious glass vessel. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 18 After the blossom unfolds it perspires a sweet honey-like fluid. 1867 Sci. Amer. 17 Aug. 101/3 The barrels perspire the oil at every pore, and the vapor which steams away from their surface mingles with the air. 2000 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 6 n ‘It was thought that hippos perspired blood,’ Sarro says. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > be disclosed or revealed to come to (also in, on) (the) lightOE sutelea1000 kitheOE unfoldc1350 disclosea1513 burst1542 to break up1584 to take vent1611 vent1622 bleed1645 emerge1664 to get (also have) vent1668 to get or take wind1668 to stand (appear) confessed1708 eclat1736 perspire1748 transpire1748 to come out1751 develop1805 unroll1807 spunk1808 effloresce1834 to come to the front1871 to show up1879 out1894 evolve1920 to come or crawl out of the woodwork1964 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. ii. 37 If you do, it will, I presume, be in confidence; that nothing may perspire from your own family to contradict what I have given out. 1766 J. Entick New Hist. London I. 142 It never perspired what the..sum amounted unto. 1766 J. Entick New Hist. London I. 265 The affair perspiring. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow gently breathe1567 perspire1648 breeze1682 waft1804 sniffle1885 zephyr1973 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. S4v What gentle Winds perspire? As if here Never had been the Northern Plunderer To strip the Trees. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > emit > as a vapour reekOE transpire1598 evapour1615 evaporatea1626 exhalea1628 to cast off1674 perspire1680 pant1735 1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 329 The Grotta..famous for those pestilential Vapors which it perspires. a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 54 To make Love infinite perspire Devouring Fire. 1717 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 483 The various Effluvia perspir'd out of our Globe. a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 39 The vapours perspired by the clove tree. 4. intransitive. Of a person or other mammal: to give out watery fluid through the pores of the skin, originally only imperceptibly as vapour, now also visibly as fluid droplets or sweat as a result of heat, physical exertion, stress, etc.; to sweat.The term perspire has sometimes been regarded as more polite than sweat when referring to people (cf. quots. 1791, 2000). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretion of sweat > sweat [verb (intransitive)] sweatc900 reekc1475 resudate1599 sudate1599 melt1614 transpire1648 perspire1684 perspirate1844 shvitz1957 1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 566 Wherefore, that there are Pores in the skin of every man's Body, is no more to be question'd, than whether Men do ever sweat or perspire. 1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 180 Dropsical People are generally observ'd to sweat much, but perspire little. 1784 J. Wesley Serm. 1 Cor. xiii. in Arminian Mag. 7 240 During a night's sleep, a healthy man perspires one part in four less when he sweats, than when he does not. 1791 Gentleman's Mag. 61 1099 It is well known that for some time past, neither man, woman nor child..has been subject to that gross kind of exudation which was formerly known by the name of sweat;..now every mortal, except carters, coal-heavers and Irish Chair-men..merely perspires. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 121 The heat causes him immediately to perspire profusely. 1890 Washington Post 13 July 9 For people who perspire freely and want something cooling.., a ginger-ale sour is recommended. 1938 Z. N. Hurston Tell my Horse xvi. 256 It [sc. calomel] is absorbed through the skin when the wearer perspires and produces a dangerous swelling. 1979 J. Heller Good as Gold 91 Sid was perspiring now from more than heat. 2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 v. 148 Gentlemen perspire and horses sweat, these policemen oozed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1646 |
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