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Webster 1913 Edition


Pox

Pox

,
Noun.
[For
pocks
, OE.
pokkes
. See
Pock
. It is plural in form but is used as a singular.]
(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.

Definition 2024


pox

pox

English

Noun

pox (plural poxes)

  1. A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
  2. Syphilis.
  3. (figuratively) A curse.
    • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, act IV, scene 3
      A pox on him, he's a cat still.

Translations

Derived terms

Verb

pox (third-person singular simple present poxes, present participle poxing, simple past and past participle poxed)

  1. (transitive, dated) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

Coatlán Mixe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poʃ/

Noun

pox

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