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A sweating bath or place for sweating. Sir T. Herbert.

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  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • SWEATY
    1. Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment. 2. Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. Swift. 3. Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. "The sweaty forge." Prior.
  • PLACENTARY
    Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
  • PLACE-KICK
    To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
  • SWEATILY
    In a sweaty manner.
  • PLACER
    One who places or sets. Spenser.
  • PLACE
    Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
  • SWEATER
    1. One who sweats. 2. One who, or that which, causes to sweat; as: A sudorific. A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes. An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.
  • PLACENTA
    The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
  • PLACEMAN
    One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
  • PLACENTIOUS
    Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
  • PLACEBO
    The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
  • PLACENTIFEROUS
    Having or producing a placenta.
  • SWEATING
    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
  • PLACENTATION
    The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
  • PLACE-PROUD
    Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl.
  • PLACEFUL
    In the appointed place.
  • PLACENTAL
    Of or pertaining to the Placentalia. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.
  • SWEAT
    akin to OFries. & OS. swet, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, 1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. Shak. 2. Fig.: To perspire in toil;
  • SWEATINESS
    Quality or state of being sweaty.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
    1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
  • APLACENTAL
    Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
  • DISPLACER
    The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces.
  • BY-PLACE
    A retired or private place.
  • SELF-COMPLACENCY
    The quality of being self-complacent. J. Foster.
  • MISPLACE
    To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
  • EMPLACEMENT
    A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.
  • DISPLACEABLE
    Capable of being displaced.
  • INTERPLACE
    To place between or among; as, to interplace a name. Daniel.

 

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