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A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot women.

Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.

Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.

A mark of a line or lines under a word in a sentence, or under another line; underlining.

To heat too much, to overheat; as, to superheat an oven.

An apparatus for superheating steam.

Same as Surbate. [Obs.]

Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. He 'd have the poets sweat. Waller.

One who sweats.

In a sweaty manner.

Quality or state of being sweaty.

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…

Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment.

The paint used in making patent leather.

A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.

Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.

See Tath. [Prov. Eng.]

Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater. Burns. Shade above shade, a woody theater Of stateliest view. Milton.

One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction.