Definition of "perspiring"

perspiring

adjective
comparative more perspiring, superlative most perspiring
1. Producing perspiration; sweating.
  Quotations
  Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.
  1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad‎
noun
countable and uncountable, plural perspirings
1. The act of producing perspiration.
  Quotations
  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.
  2015, Seneca (in translation), Dialogues (page 173)
verb
1. present participle and gerund of perspire