unsweat

English

Etymology

Verb

unsweat (third-person singular simple present unsweats, present participle unsweating, simple past and past participle unsweated)

(transitive) To relieve from perspiration; to ease or cool after exercise or toil.
- [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:
  The interim of unsweating themselves regularly , and convenient rest before meat , may both with profit and delight be taken up in recreating and composing their travel'd Spirit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unsweat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

unwaste