cough

1. (transitive, medicine)Examples: "Sometimes she coughed up blood."; "Jeeves coughed one soft, low, gentle cough like a sheep with a blade of grass stuck in its throat, and then stood gazing serenely at the landscape."transitive

2. (transitive, medicine)Examples: "He almost coughed himself into a fit."transitive

3. (transitive, medicine)Examples: "No ſtationary ſteeds / Cough their ovvn knell, vvhile heedleſs of the ſound / The ſilent circle fan themſelves, and quake."transitive

4. (transitive, medicine)figurativelytransitive

5. (transitive, medicine)Examples: "By the time you get back the men will all be striking out for the fire, and we'll break for the house and collar the dollars. Everybody cough up what matches he's got."; "Thanks to Jeeves I was not going to be called on to cough up several thousand quid."; ""Parsloe, will you or will you not cough up that pig?" / "I have not got your pig.""figurativelyslangtransitive

6. (intransitive)Examples: "I breathed in a lungful of smoke by mistake, and started to cough."; "Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thou cougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, you cough / to fare deliciouſly."; "Leave procreants alone, and ſhut the dore, / Coffe, or cry hem, if any body come, […]"intransitive