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.
... that the presumption is always against the rhymester as compared with the less pretentious persons about him or her, busy with some useful calling,—too busy to be tagging rhymed commonplaces together. Just now there seems to be an epidemic of rhyming as bad as the dancing mania, or the sweating sickness. After reading a certain amount of manuscript verse one is disposed to anathematize the inventor of homophonous syllabification. [This phrase made a great laugh when it was read.] This, that is rhyming, must have been ... — A Mortal Antipathy • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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