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.