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Sweating
Gently cooking food (usually vegetables), coated in melted fat until the juices run.
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Sweating
A process for loosening the hair or wool on a hide or skin by hanging the pieces near together in a close atmosphere, thus encouraging bacterial action. It has now become comparatively rare, being confined to out of the way places or primitive industries, and to a few special trades like that center...
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Sweating
Sweating: The act of secreting fluid from the skin by the sweat (sudoriferous) glands. These are small tubular glands situated within and under the skin (in the subcutaneous tissue). They discharge by tiny openings in the surface of the skin. The sweat is a transparent colorless acidic fluid with a ...
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Sweating
Sweat'ing adjective & noun from Sweat , v. Sweating bath , a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. -- Sweating house , a house for sweating persons in sickness. -- S...
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sweating
From Sweat, 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 room for sweating persons...
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sweating
(swet´ing) the excretion of moisture through the pores of the skin; see also hyperhidrosis. Called also perspiration and diaphoresis.
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Sweating
• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sweat • a. & n. from Sweat, v.
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Sweating
[cooking] Sweating in cooking is the gentle heating of coarsely cut vegetables in a little oil or butter, with frequent stirring and turning to ensure that any emitted liquid will evaporate. Sweating usually results in tender, sometimes translucent, pieces. Sweating is often a preliminary to...
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Sweating
Sweating is a defect in paint or varnish film whereby the oily matter from the undercoats exudes through the surface causing it to become permanently tacky. The defect is often caused by the application of a quick-drying coating over an insufficiently hard undercoat.
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Sweating
Sweating was a term applied in the later decades of the 19th century to the practice of getting work done at minimum rates of pay through the medium of middle-men employers. The practice was particularly common in certain occupations such as clothing and the furniture trades. Work was given out by l...
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sweating
Type: Term Pronunciation: swet′ing Synonyms: perspiration1
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sweating
See Sweated Labour.
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sweating
1) Perspiring 2) Producing bullets? 3) Sweaty 4) Wet
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