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Webster 1913 Edition
Pox
Pox
,Noun.
(Med.)
Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, – the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.
☞ Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis.
Pox
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Poxed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Poxing
.] To infect with the pox, or syphilis.