Obs. = COFF, to purchase, acquire, get.
1550. Latimer, Last Serm. bef. Edw. VI., in 27 Serm. (1562), 121 a. If euery man that hath beguiled the King should make restitucion … it would cough the King xx M. poundes…. Alac! alac! make restitucion … ye wyl cough in hel els, that al the Deuils there wil laugh at your coughing.
