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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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(Sweting,) Sweiting, ppl. adj. [ME and e.m.E. swetynge (Piers Plowman), sweating (1578); Swete v.] Characterised by excessive sweating. — 1677 Lauder Notices Affairs I 143.
Anent the west-countrie witches besyde Pollock's … house whom they rosted by a lent fyre, with images of wax and clay formed by the devill, and who at last dyed of that sweiting sicknes
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