perspirable

• a word derived from perspire.

Example Sentences

And others on the external body, as those which secrete the tears, and perspirable matter.

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

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

The remote cause of the former arises from the dissipation of the aqueous parts of our fluids by the increased secretion of perspirable matter, or other evacuations.

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

But those very extensive glands, which secrete the perspirable matter of the skin and lungs, with the mucus, which lubricates all the internal cells and cavities of the body, claim our particular attention.

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

Whence greater heat, a greater secretion of perspirable matter, and of mucus; and a greater absorption of them both, and of aerial moisture.

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

Related Words

• secrete