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n. Coughing without expectoration
Usage examples of "dry cough".
The usual symptoms are fever-ishness with a harsh, dry cough and wheezing respiration.
Culpepper says: 'The fresh leaves, or juice, or syrup thereof, is good for a bad dry cough, or wheezing and shortness of breath.
Still, its breathing was labored, and it huffed twice more, too much like the dry cough of a man who has caught a fever in his lungs and can't squeeze it out.
Other than young Piel's crisis, the Fellowship's sheep got that dry cough I told you about, and the preparation you recommended cleared it up in them as fast as it did my folk's flock.
Other than young Piels crisis, the Fellowships sheep got that dry cough I told you about, and the preparation you recommended cleared it up in them as fast as it did my folks flock.