Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sweating"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sweating \Sweat"ing\,
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sweat \Sweat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sweat} or {Sweated} (Obs.
{Swat}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sweating}.] [OE. sweten, AS.
sw[ae]tan, fr. sw[=a]t, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS.
sw[=e]t, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti,
sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to
sweat, Gr. ?, ?, sweat, ? to sweat, Skr. sv[=e]da sweat, svid
to sweat. [root]178. Cf. {Exude}, {Sudary}, {Sudorific}.]
1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin;
to perspire. --Shak.
2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
He 'd have the poets sweat. --Waller.
3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sweating
adj : being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his
sweating face"; "sweaty clothes" [syn: {perspiring}, {sweaty}]
n : the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a
salty fluid; "perspiration is a homeostatic process"
[syn: {perspiration}, {diaphoresis}, {sudation}, {hidrosis}]
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