Category:Pox

Pox, n. Etym: [for pocks, oe. pokkes. See pock. It is plural in form But is used as a singular.] (med.)

Defn: 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.

Note: pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly Signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis.

Pox Pox, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing.]

Defn: to infect with the pox, or syphilis.