Sweating
Sweat·ing
Sweating
a. & n.
- a. & n. from Sweat, v.
Phrases & Compounds
- 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.