'Sweating house' definitions:
Definition of 'Sweating house'
From: 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]