Sweating

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 room for sweating persons.

Sweating sickness — 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.