sweating : Idioms & Phrases
Sweating bath
- a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory.
Webster 1913
Sweating house
- a house for sweating persons in sickness.
Webster 1913
Sweating iron
- a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper.
Webster 1913
Sweating room
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(a) A room for sweating persons.(b) (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices.
Webster 1913
Sweating sickness
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noun a disease of cattle (especially calves)
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noun epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality
miliary fever.
WordNet
(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.
