资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

sweating
     adj : being wet with perspiration; "the perspiring runners"; "his
           sweating face"; "sweaty clothes" [syn: {perspiring}, {sweaty}]
     n : the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a
         salty fluid; "perspiration is a homeostatic process"
         [syn: {perspiration}, {diaphoresis}, {sudation}, {hidrosis}]