Sweating

a. & n.

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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.

Noun	1.	sweating - the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid; "perspiration is a homeostatic process" Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, sudation, perspiration
Adj.	1.	sweating - being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his sweating face"; "sweaty clothes" Synonyms: perspiring, sweaty

ardent, baking, bathed in sweat, beaded with sweat, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, clammy, condensation, diaphoretic, distillation, drenched with sweat, dribble, drip, dripping, drop, drudging, ebullient, feverish, flushed, grilling, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, heated, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, in a sweat, laboring, leaching, like a furnace, like an oven, lixiviation, overheated, overwarm, parching, pegging, percolation, perspiring, perspiry, piping hot, plodding, plugging, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, seepage, seeping, seething, simmering, sizzling hot, slaving, slogging, smoking hot, spurtle, sticky, straining, striving, struggling, sudatory, sudoric, sudorific, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, toiling, torrid, trickle, tricklet, wet with sweat, white-hot, wilted, working

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