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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…

A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. [Obs.]

A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff. Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing. Shak.

The sweating system.

A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.

The act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded. Resins, a class of proximate principles, existing in almost all plants and appearing on the external surface of many of them in the form of exudations. Am. Cyc.

A sweating bath or place for sweating. Sir T. Herbert.

Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.

), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partially so (remittent fever); fever and ague; chills and fever.…

es throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.

Act of sweating again.

Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.

A sweating. [Obs.]

Sweating; perspiring.

h is interdicted is to put it in circulation again after having diminished its weight by "sweating", or otherwise, because the quantity of metal contains is no longer consistent with its impression. R. Cobden.

A sweating in a tub; a tub fast. [Obs.] Shak.