Pox (?), n. [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.
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Pox, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poxed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing.]
To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
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