perspiring

Etymology

adj

1. Producing perspiration; sweating.
   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

1. 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. 2015, Seneca (in translation), Dialogues (page 173)

verb

1. present participle and gerund of perspire