to hawk or cough up , to spit out by coughing : per tussim exscreatur, si tolerabilis morbus est, pituita; si gravis, sanguis, Cels. 4, 6: pura, Plin. 24, 16, 92, § 145.— Absol. : age, age, usque excrea, Plaut.As. 1, 1, 27: numquam exscreare ausus, Suet.Ner. 24; Ov.H. 21, 24.