Sweating
Sweating , adjective and noun
a. & n. from Sweat, v.
Collocations (5)
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 (Dairying) , (a) A room for sweating persons. A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices.
Sweating sickness (Medicine) , 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.