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Bloody sweat

Bloody sweat \Blood"y sweat`\ A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

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bloody sweat

n. sweating sickness

Usage examples of "bloody sweat".

His features were distorted into a bestial grin of agony from which dripped bloody sweat, and his limbs were twisted as in a rack.

From one of them, bloody sweat dribbled from his armpits and groin, thin crimson lines that wrote ugly patterns on his skin.

The first sign was bloody sweat, often followed by black swellings in the armpits and groin.