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perspirable

  • a word derived from perspire.
    perspire
    verb (used without object)
    to secrete a salty, watery fluid from the sweat glands of the skin, especially when very warm as a result of strenuous exertion; sweat.

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Those, whose mouths are dispersed on the external skin, imbibe a great quantity of water from the atmosphere, and a part of the perspirable matter, which does not evaporate, and are termed cutaneous absorbents.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Fresh air and ventilation are the important dream-persuaders, and bad dreams and restlessness in bed are caused by excess of perspirable matter which is not allowed to get away from the skin.

From The True Benjamin Franklin by Fisher, Sydney George

A laboring man, in the open fields, probably throws off from his skin ten times the amount of perspirable matter, which is evolved from the skin of a person of sedentary pursuits.

From A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Beecher, Catharine Esther

This accumulating fluid, or perspirable matter, is at first colourless; but being exposed to violent heat, or dried, becomes brown.

From An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions by Clarkson, Thomas

Whence the secretion of perspirable matter is not decreased, but its appearance on the skin is prevented by its more facile absorption.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus