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SUBSTITUTE, contracts (law) and Sweat (medicine)


SUBSTITUTE, contracts (law)


SUBSTITUTE, contracts. One placed under another to transact business for him; in letters of attorney, power is generally given to the attorney to him; in letters of attorney, power is generally given to the attorney to nominate and appoint a substitute. nominate and appoint a substitute. 2. Without such power, the authority given to one person cannot in 2. Without such power, the authority given to one person cannot in General be delegated to another, because it is a personal trust and General be delegated to another, because it is a personal trust and confidence, and is not therefore transmissible. The authority is given to confidence, and is not therefore transmissible. The authority is given to him to Exercise his judgment and discretion, and it cannot be said that the him to Exercise his judgment and discretion, and it cannot be said that the trust and confidence reposed in him shall be exercised at the discretion of trust and confidence reposed in him shall be exercised at the discretion of another. 2 Atk. 88; 2 Ves. 645. But an authority may be delegated to another. 2 Atk. 88; 2 Ves. 645. But an authority may be delegated to another, when the attorney has express power to do so. Bunb. 166; T. Jones, another, when the attorney has express power to do so. Bunb. 166; T. Jones, 110. See Story, Ag. Sec. 13, 14. When a man is drawn in the militia, he may 110. See Story, Ag. Sec. 13, 14. When a man is drawn in the militia, he may in some cases hire a substitute. in some cases hire a substitute.

Sweat (medicine)


sweat


1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.

2. To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. "He 'd have the poets sweat." (Waller)

3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.

Origin: OE. Sweten, AS. Swaetan, fr. Swat, n, sweat; akin to OFries. & OS. Swet, D. Zweet, OHG. Sweiz, G. Schweiss, Icel. Sviti, sveiti, Sw. Svett, Dan. Sved, L. Sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, Gr, sweat, to sweat, Skr. Sveda sweat, svid to sweat. 178. Cf. Exude, Sudary, Sudorific.

1. To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.

2. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude. "It made her not a drop for sweat." (Chaucer) "With Exercise she sweat ill humors out." (Dryden)

3. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.

4. To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labour from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers. To sweat coin, to remove a portion of a piece of coin, as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal. "The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by "sweating", or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression." (R. Cobden)

1. <physiology> The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colourless, acid liquid with a peculiar odour, containing some fatty acids and mineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration. "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." (Gen. Iii. 19)

2. The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats; hence, labour; toil; drudgery.

3. Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay or grain in a mow or stack.

4. The sweating sickness.

5. A short run by a race horse in Exercise.

<anatomy> Sweat box, sudoriferous glands. See Sudoriferous. Sweat suit. A suit comprising a top and trousers, having full arms and legs, used while performing physical exercises, especially. Out-of-doors. Sweat equity. The rights to a portion of ownership or profit, hypothetically owned by a worker who participated in producing a product, such as in improving a piece of Real Estate.

Origin: Cf. OE. Swot, AS. Swat. See Sweat.

Source: Websters Dictionary