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Sweating   /swˈɛtɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Sweating  n.  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.


verb
Sweat  v. t.  
1.
To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by most powerful sudorifics.
2.
To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude. "It made her not a drop for sweat." "With exercise she sweat ill humors out."
3.
To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.
4.
To get something advantageous, as money, property, or labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers. (Colloq.)
To sweat coin, to remove a portion of a piece of coin, as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal. "The only use of it (money) which 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."


Sweat  v. i.  (past & past part. sweat or sweated, obs. swat; pres. part. sweating)  
1.
To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
2.
Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge. "He 'd have the poets sweat."
3.
To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.





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"Sweating" Quotes from Famous Books



... produced by this second spectral appearance could scarcely be exaggerated, yet we suspect you will not find it of that kind which is most in harmony with human nature, except in the case of Mrs. Dodds the second, who lay, as on the former occasion, sweating and trembling. It was now different with the husband, on whom apparently had fallen some of the seeds of the word, as they were scattered by the lips of the strange visitor, and conscience had prepared the soil. The constitutional strength of character which had enabled him to perpetrate a terrible ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XXIII. • Various
... sewing. Her eyes and hair were black, and her oval face had the rude coloring of health. She brought into the death-chamber at once a whiff of ozone, and a suggestion of tragic incongruity. Nodding pleasantly at the visitor, she advanced quickly to the bedside, and laid her hand upon the forehead, sweating ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... playing a game kind of like pushpin told me to go into a closet that she called Number 3. I went in and shut the door, and the blamed thing lit itself up. I set down on a stool before a shelf and waited. Thinks I, 'This is a private dining-room.' But no waiter never came. When I got to sweating good and hard, I ...
— Stories from Everybody's Magazine • 1910 issues of Everybody's Magazine
... night the four men toiled between the Mint and the Bank of California sweating, puffing, fatigued to the brink of exhaustion. With the first streak ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman
... that it would be nine miles over the mountain. MacKenzie did not tell his men what was ahead of them, but he led the way up the steep mountain, cutting trees to form an outer railing, and up this trail the canoe was hauled, towline round trees, the men swearing and sweating and blowing like whales. Three miles was the record that day, the voyageurs throwing themselves down to sleep at five in the afternoon, wrapped in their blanket coats lying close to the glacier edges. Three days it took to cross this mountain, and the end ...
— Canada: the Empire of the North - Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom • Agnes C. Laut


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