I.a. (mostly post-Aug.).
I. Neutr., to sweat greatly.
A. Lit., Cels. 6, 6, 29; Stat. Th. 3, 277.—
B. Trop., to exert or fatigue one's self: in his (sc. exercitationibus ingenii) desudans atque elaborans, *Cic. de Sen. 11, 38: “alio Marte,” Claud. B. Get. 280; cf. id. in Eutrop. 2, 602: “laboribus,” Vulg. Eccl. 2, 19.—
II. Act., to sweat out, exude.