hoast

Try some o’ thae black currants; they’re graund for a hoast.

The Days of Auld Lang Syne

Ian MacLaren

It ‘s little she says aboot hersel, but she ‘s hed a hoast (cough) for sax months, an’ a’ gither her breath ‘s failin’.

The Days of Auld Lang Syne

Ian MacLaren

Theres something in that wind and in the hoast beyont that sounds, and looks, and tastes, and smells like death.

Dracula

Bram Stoker

“Donacha Breck’s widow was over before we were up to-day, for something for her hoast,” she said.

Gilian The Dreamer

Neil Munro

The third part of the hoast went to Meulanc, a verie strong towne compassed about with the riuer of Seine.

Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (2 of 9)

Raphael Holinshed