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Webster 1913 Edition
Sweating
Sweat′ing
,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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sweating
SWEAT'ING
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1.
Causing to emit moisture upon the skin.