meaning of pox
1. 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. To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
3. a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
Related Words
pox | poxed | poxing | poxvirus |
