Thesaurus: sweating

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1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Sweat
2. a. & n. from Sweat, v.
3. n. the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid
4. a. & n. from Sweat, v. Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. -- Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness. -- Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper. -- Sweating room. (a) A room for sweating persons. (b) (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices. -- Sweating sickness (Med.), a febrile epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profuse sweating. Death often occured in a few hours.
5. a. & n. from Sweat, v. Sweating bath, a bath producing sensiblesweat; a stove or sudatory.-- Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness.-- Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used toscrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper.-- Sweating room. (a) A room for sweating persons. (b) (Dairying) Aroom for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices.-- Sweating sickness (Med.), a febrile epidemic disease whichprevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England,in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, characterized by profusesweating. Death often occured in a few hours.
6. j:48/n:52 n the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid v excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin