Source : 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.