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Webster 1913 Edition

Sweating

Sweat′ing

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Adj.
&
Noun.
from
Sweat
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Verb.
Sweating bath
,
a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory.
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Sweating house
,
a house for sweating persons in sickness.
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Sweating iron
,
a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper.
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Sweating room
.
(a)
A room for sweating persons.
(b)
(Dairying)
A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices.
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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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ppr.
Emitting moisture from the pores of the skin; throwing our moisture; exuding.
1.
Causing to emit moisture upon the skin.

Definition 2024

sweating

sweating

English

Noun

sweating ‎(countable and uncountable, plural sweatings)

  1. the production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
    • Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
      Her jet-black hair would be heavily braided, and her face chalky-white from its coating of powder (she suffered from constant sweatings and seborrhoea).

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Verb

sweating

  1. present participle of sweat

Adjective

sweating ‎(comparative more sweating, superlative most sweating)

  1. Giving off sweat.
    A sweating man stepped out of the sauna, wrapping himself in a towel.

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