About The Word Sweating
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Sweating
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What's The Definition Of 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Sweating: diaphoresis | hidrosis | perspiration | perspiring | sudation | sweaty | wet Related Terms | Find terms related to Sweating: See Also | activity | bodily function | bodily process | body process | hyperhidrosis | hyperidrosis | polyhidrosis Sweating In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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