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To expel from the lungs or air passages by coughing; -- followed by up; as, to cough up phlegm.

One who coughs.

Whooping cough.

f the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough. [Written also hickup or hiccup.]

C5H11OH; ordinarily, a mixture of two of these forming a colorless liquid with a peculiar cough-exciting odor and burning taste, the chief constituent of fusel oil. It is used as a source of amyl compounds, such as amyl acetate, amyl nitrite, etc.

at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.

Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient. -- Asth*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Pertaining to, or relieving, a cough. Thomas. -- n.

e body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden.

A steep, rugged rock; a cough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge. From crag to crag the signal fiew. Sir W. Scott.

An inflammatory affection of the larynx or trachea, accompanied by a hoarse, ringing cough and stridulous, difficult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.…

Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as, a croupy cough.

To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

To cough faintly and frequently, or in a short, broken manner; as, a hacking cough.

d by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.

in is used for that function; -- "to help him in his misery" Shak. The true calamus helps coughs. Gerarde.

ord used as an expression of hesitation, doubt, etc. It is often a sort of voluntary half cough, loud or subdued, and would perhaps be better expressed by hm. Cough or cry hem, if anybody come. Shak.

See Hiccough.