sweating

Perspiring freely or profusely.

Of or pertaining to the employment of persons, as to make clothes, at the lowest wages.

The act of perspiring; profuse perspiration; also, the process of producing profuse perspiration by means of sudorifics, hot baths, etc.

Same as sweating system (which see, under sweating, p. a.).

The process of producing exudation or oozing of moisture by application of heat either dry or moist.