cough1 (kof)

[ Smoke and smolder smyteth in his eyen, Til he be blere-nyed or blynde and hors in the throte, Cougheth, and curseth. Piers Plowman (B), xvii. 325. Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street. Shak . , R. and J., iii. 1. II. trans. To expel from the air-pa ages by a more or le violent effort with noise and usually with expectoration: followed by up : as, to cough up phlegm. - To cough down, to stop, as an unpopular or tedious speaker, by simulated coughing.