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To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop. Hooping cough. (Med.) See Whooping cough.

re), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc. [Written also hoarhound.] Fetid horehound, or Black horehound, a disagreeable plant resembling horehound (Ballota nigra). -- Water horehound, a species of the genus Lycopus, resembling mint, but not aromatic.…

A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter. [Scot.]

Whooping cough. [Obs.or Prov. Eng.]

Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough. [Archaic] "A parlous snuffing." Beau. & Fl.

The whooping cough.

lammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity. Pleurisy root. (Bot.) (a) The large tuberous root of a kind of milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) which is used as a remedy for pleuritic and other diseases. (b) The plant itself, whic…

A half sound; a low tone. [Obs.] "Soft he cougheth with a semisoun." Chaucer.

A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. [Obs.] Spenser. W. Browne.

Relating to, or affected with, hiccough. Dunglison.

Hiccough.

Pertaining to, or manifested by, cough.

Of or pertaining to a cough. Dunglison.

A cough.

Pertaining to a cough; caused by coughing.

To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

a. & n. from Whoop, v. t. Whooping cough (Med.), a violent, convulsive cough, returning at longer or shorter intervals, and consisting of several expirations, followed by a sonorous inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough. Dunglison. -- Whooping crane (Zoöl.), a North American crane (Crus Americana) noted for…

has, a red berry inclosed in the inflated and persistent calyx. See Alkekengi. -- Winter cough (Med.), a form of chronic bronchitis marked by a cough recurring each winter. -- Winter cress (Bot.), a yellow-flowered cruciferous plant (Barbarea vulgaris). -- Winter crop, a crop which will bear the winter, or which may…

To hiccough. [Written also yox, yux.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] He yexeth and he speaketh through the nose. Chaucer.