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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.
Definition 2025
pox
pox
English
Noun
pox (plural poxes)
- A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
- Syphilis.
- (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.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, act IV, scene 3
Translations
A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks
syphilis — see syphilis
Derived terms
Derived terms
Verb
pox (third-person singular simple present poxes, present participle poxing, simple past and past participle poxed)