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

n. Syphilis.

n. Archaic Misfortune and calamity.

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

n. Syphilis.

v. To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

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. To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

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

To communicate the pox or venereal disease to.

n. a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)

n. a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks

"Now as to the first Inoculation for the small pox is almost always a great mitigator of the evils of that disease."

a pox on   

poxed    poxing    smallpox    cowpox    poxy    chickenpox   

Cox    Fox    Foxx    Jocks    Knox    Ochs    Sachs    Sox    ballcocks    blocks   

smallpox    dysentery    influenza    syphilis    typhus    leprosy    bronchitis    ague    polio    scrofula