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sweating sickness
(encz) | sweating sickness, n: |
Sweating sickness
(gcide) | Sweating \Sweat"ing\,
a. & n. from Sweat, v.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster] |
sweating sickness
(wn) | sweating sickness
n 1: a disease of cattle (especially calves)
2: epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by
profuse sweating and high mortality [syn: {sweating
sickness}, miliary fever] |
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Sweating sickness
(gcide) | Sweating \Sweat"ing\,
a. & n. from Sweat, v.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster] |
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