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A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases. Of pokkes and of scab every sore. Chaucer.

Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.

See Pockmarked.

Pockmarked; pitted.

A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.

See Pockmarked. [Obs.]

To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. He would pocket the expense of the license. Sterne.

The retention by the President of the United States of a bill unsigned so that it does not become a law, in virtue of the following constitutional provision (Const. Art. I., sec. 7, cl. 2): "If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him,…

A small book or case for carrying papers, money, etc., in the pocket; also, a notebook for the pocket.

As much as a pocket will hold; enough to fill a pocket; as, pocketfuls of chestnuts.

ith one or more blades, which fold into the handle so as to admit of being carried in the pocket.

The state of being pocky.

A mark or pit made by smallpox.

Marked by smallpox; pitted.

Lignum-vitæ.

Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease. Bp. Hall.

See Cowpox. Dunglison.

One who steals purses or other articles from pockets. Bentley.

A water hole in the bed of an intermittent stream, esp. the bowl at the foot of a cliff over which the stream leaps when in the flood stage. [Western U. S.]

A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum. [Written also yapack.]