Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SWEATING

ppr. Emitting moisture from the pores of the skin; throwing our moisture; exuding. 1. Causing to emit moisture upon the skin.

 

SWEATING-BATH

n.A sudatory; a bath for exciting sensible perspiration or sweat; a hypocaust or stove.

 

SWEATING-HOUSE

n.A house for sweating persons in sickness.

 

SWEATING-IRON

n.A kind of knife or a piece of a sythe, used to scrape off sweat from horses.

 

SWEATING-ROOM

n.A room for sweating persons. 1. In rural economy, a room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices.

 

SWEATING-SICKNESS

n.A febril epidemic disease which prevailed in some countries of Europe, but particularly in England, in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its first appearance was in the army of the earl of Richmond, afterward Henry VII on his landing at Milford haven, in 1485. The invasion of the disease was sudden, and usually marked by a local affection producing the sensation of intense heat, afterwards diffusing itself over the whole body, and immediately followed by profuse sweating, which continued through the whole course of the disease or till death, which often happened in a few hours.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SWEATING

SWEATING Sweat "ing,

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sweating sickness

sweat ing sick ness ▶noun any of various fevers with intense sweating, epidemic in England in the 15th –16th centuries.

 

Oxford Dictionary

sweating sickness

sweating sick |ness ▶noun any of various fevers with intense sweating, epidemic in England in the 15th –16th centuries.

 

Duden Dictionary

Sweatingsystem

Swea ting sys tem Substantiv, Neutrum , das |ˈsveːtɪŋ …|das Sweatingsystem; Genitiv: des Sweatingsystems, Plural: die Sweatingsysteme englisch sweating system, eigentlich = Schwitzsystem Arbeitsverhältnis, bei dem zwischen Unternehmer und Arbeiter ein Vermittler tritt, der die Aufträge in möglichst niedrigen Lohnsätzen an die Arbeiter vergibt

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sweating

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