POX

n. v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.

2.
v.

To infect with the pox, or syphilis.


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