pox

noun

A disease such as chickenpox or smallpox, characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.

noun

Syphilis.

noun

Misfortune or calamity.

To communicate the pox or venereal disease to.

noun

A disease characterized by eruptive pocks or pustules upon the body.

noun

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.

transitive verb

To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

noun

A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.

noun

Syphilis.

verb

To infect with the pox, or syphilis.