Pock
[pɒk] or [pɑk]
Definition
(n.) A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pustule (as of small-pox).
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Definition
n. a small elevation of the skin containing matter as in smallpox.—adjs. Pocked Pock′y infected with or marked by smallpox.—ns. Pock′mark Pock′pit the mark pit or scar left by a pock.—adj. Pock′pitted.
Editor: Verna
Examples
- He had small twinkling eyes, and a pock-marked face; wore a fur cap, a dark corduroy jacket, greasy fustian trousers, and an apron. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- What would you think of a man who looked at some decayed, blind, toothless, pock-marked Cleopatra, and said: What matchless beauty! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was a Tyrolese, broad, rather flat-cheeked, with a pale, pock-marked skin and flourishing moustaches. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The glare of the unshaded gas shone familiarly on her pock-marked face and the reddish baldness visible through thin strands of straw-coloured hair. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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