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.

Specifically, in tanning, a process of removing hair from hides by exposing them to moist air.

Specifically, in the tobacco trade, the fermenting, in either the active or passive sense, of tobacco leaves, a process which follows that of curing or drying, and consists of further evaporation with chemical changes due, as shown by Loew, to the activity of two oxidizing enzymes.

In the refining of paraffin from petroleum or bituminous shale, a process of fractional fusion in which the crude paraffin-scale in blocks is placed in a chamber heated by steam-pipes to a temperature a few degrees below the point at which the whole would melt, the more fusible part drained away, and the still solid portion afterward melted down at a higher temperature and decolorized by means of animal charcoal.

a. & n. from sweat, v.

a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory.