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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sweating \sweat"ing\,
a. n. from sweat, v.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
sweat sweating bath sweating house sweating iron sweating room sweating sickness
Results 1 - 9 of 9 found about sweating house: Charnel House
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