Pronunciation : Pox
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [For pocks, OE. pokkes. See Pock. It is plural in form but is used as a singular.] (Med.)
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Pox
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
t. [imp. & p. p. Poxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913