Definition of Coughs

1. Noun. (plural of cough) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of cough) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coughs

1. cough [v] - See also: cough

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coughs

cough reflex
cough suppressant
cough syrup
cough syrups
cough up
coughdrop
coughdrops
coughed
coughed up
cougher
coughers
coughing
coughing up
coughingly
coughings
coughs (current term)
coughs up
coughy
couguar
couguars
couhage
couis
could
could've
could I see the menu, please
could be written on the back of a postage stamp
could care less
could do with
could do without
could fit on the back of a postage stamp

Literary usage of Coughs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody. An Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase (1860)
"Dr. Robinson^ of Detroit, has great success in coughs with Beach's pulmonary ... This is a most excellent remedy in all coughs and pulmonary affections. 4:. ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1886)
"ON PAROXYSMAL coughs AND THEIR TREATMENT. BY VINCENT DORMER HARRIS, MD, ... It is to these coughs, which are most distressing and even dangerous while the ..."

3. On diseases peculiar to women: Including Displacements of the Uterus by Hugh Lenox Hodge (1868)
"coughs.—Another variety of nervous irritation of the lungs is manifested by coughing. There are a great number of these nervous coughs, and some of a most ..."

4. A Treatise on the Diseases of Children: With Directions for the Management by Michael Underwood, Marshall Hall (1835)
"GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON coughs. Previously to treating of the hooping, and what I have termed the spasmodic cough, it may not be unwelcome to students in ..."

5. American Public Health Protection by Henry Bixby Hemenway, Edwin Frederick Bowers, Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"CHAPTER IV WHY ARE coughs ? AS a general proposition a cough is nothing more or less than a ... The main trouble with coughs is in our treatment of them. ..."

6. Babyhood: Devoted Exclusively to the Care of Infants and Young Children (1891)
"coughs are such intimate bosom companions of the vast majority of mankind, that any definition of our common affliction may appear superfluous. ..."

7. Manual of Serum Diagnosis: Deep Breathing and a Complete System for by Bernarr Macfadden, Otto Rostoski (1904)
"... ELIMINATING ORGAN—BREATHES OUT IMPURITIES—EXHILARATING EFFECT OF BATH—A GUARANTEE AGAINST COLDS AND coughs. Did you ever take an air or sun bath ? ..."

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