The Meaning of pox

• (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.
• (v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

Synonyms

syph , lues venerea , syphilis , lues

Homophones

pocks

Rhymes

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