sweating : Idioms & Phrases


Sweating bath

  • a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory.
Webster 1913

Sweating house

  • a house for sweating persons in sickness.
Webster 1913

Sweating iron

  • a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially from horses; a horse scraper.
Webster 1913

Sweating room

  • . (a) A room for sweating persons. (b) (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices.
Webster 1913

Sweating sickness

  • noun a disease of cattle (especially calves)
  • noun epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality
    miliary fever.
WordNet
  • (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.
Webster 1913