Sweating \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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Sweat \Sweat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sweat or Sweated (Obs. Swat); p. pr. & vb. n. Sweating.]

[OE. sweten, AS. sw[ae]tan, 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.

2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.

He 'd have the poets sweat. --Waller.

3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)