Category:Sweating

Sweat"ing,

Defn: 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.