Definitions for: Sweating


[n] the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid; "perspiration is a homeostatic process"
[adj] being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his sweating face"; "sweaty clothes"



Webster (1913) Definition: Sweat"ing,
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.

Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, perspiration, perspiring, sudation, sweaty, wet

See Also: activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process, hyperhidrosis, hyperidrosis, polyhidrosis

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