Pox
English Meaning
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.
- A disease such as chickenpox or smallpox, characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
- Syphilis.
- Archaic Misfortune and calamity.