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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Pox

/päks/ · IPA /pɑks/
01 n. Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the …
  1. 1.
    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.(Med.)
02 v. t. To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
imp. & p. p. Poxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing
  1. 1.
    To infect with the pox, or syphilis.