sweating
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sweat \Sweat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sweat} or {Sweated} (Obs.
{Swat}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sweating}.] [OE. sweten, AS.
swaetan, fr. sw[=a]t, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS.
sw[=e]t, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti,
sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to
sweat, Gr. ?, ?, sweat, ? to sweat, Skr. sv[=e]da sweat, svid
to sweat. [root]178. Cf. {Exude}, {Sudary}, {Sudorific}.]
1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin;
to perspire. --Shak.
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2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.
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He 'd have the poets sweat. --Waller.
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3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sweating \Sweat"ing\,
a. & n. from {Sweat}, v.
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{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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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "sweating":
ardent, baking, bathed in sweat, beaded with sweat, blistering,
boiling, broiling, burning, burning hot, canicular, clammy,
condensation, diaphoretic, distillation, drenched with sweat,
dribble, drip, dripping, drop, drudging, ebullient, feverish,
flushed, grilling, grinding, grubbing, hardworking, heated, hot,
hot as fire, hot as hell, in a sweat, laboring, leaching,
like a furnace, like an oven, lixiviation, overheated, overwarm,
parching, pegging, percolation, perspiring, perspiry, piping hot,
plodding, plugging, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching,
searing, seepage, seeping, seething, simmering, sizzling hot,
slaving, slogging, smoking hot, spurtle, sticky, straining,
striving, struggling, sudatory, sudoric, sudorific, sweaty,
sweltering, sweltry, toasting, toiling, torrid, trickle, tricklet,
wet with sweat, white-hot, wilted, working
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