[agent-n. f. L. expectorāre: see EXPECTORATE.]
† 1. A medicine that promotes expectoration; = EXPECTORANT sb. Obs.
1671. Salmon, Syn. Med., III. xxii. 415. Bitter Vetch … is an Expectorator.
1710. T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 278. There are no such Things as Expectorators … except Volatiles and Balsamics.
2. One who expectorates or spits; in quot. fig.
1835. Blackw. Mag., XXXVII. 112. Volumes of the slaver [= spittle] … lettered with the name of the expectorator on the outside.
