Search the Dictionary

A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.

An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.

horned poppy. Gray. -- Horn pox (Med.), abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox. -- Horn quicksilver (Min.), native calomel, or bichloride of mercury. -- Horn shell (Zoöl.), any long, sharp, spiral, gastropod shell, of the genus Cerithium, and allied genera. -- Horn silver (Min.), cerargyrite.…

ny kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.

A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys.

Chicken pox.

A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.