POXES

Noun

poxes

plural of pox

Anagrams

• expos

Source: Wiktionary


POX

Pox, n. Etym: [For pocks, OE. pokkes. See Pock. It is plural in form but is used as a singular.] (Med.)

Definition: 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.

Note: Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis.

Pox, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing.]

Definition: To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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