Meaning of SWEATING
| Pronunciation: | | sw'eting
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | diaphoresis, hidrosis, perspiration, perspiring, sudation, sweaty, wet |
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| | See Also: | | activity, bodily function, bodily process, body process, hyperhidrosis, hyperidrosis, polyhidrosis | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Definition: | | the production of a fluid, sweat, by the sweat glands of the skin. The evaporation of the sweat from the skin leads to a cooling of the body. |
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