perspiring

adj

1. Producing perspiration; sweating.

   “Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The act of producing perspiration.

   “Yet for all that they did not live an idle life: they found the means of making their retirement more useful to mankind than the perspirings and runnings to and fro of other men: wherefore these persons are thought to have done great things, in spite of their having done nothing of a public character.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of perspire