Pox
[pɒks] or [pɑks]
Definition
(noun.) a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks.
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Definition
(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. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
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Definition
n. pustules: an eruptive disease.
Checker: Lola
Examples
- Measles and small-pox also attacked them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- With the measles or small-pox it would kill every time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She is twenty-nine; her face is much pitted with the small-pox. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Small-pox, think? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A hen that chanced to be inoculated with the weakened virus developed the diseas e, but, after a time, recovered (much as patients after the old-time small pox inoculations). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- During my year on the Columbia River, the small-pox exterminated one small remnant of a band of Indians entirely, and reduced others materially. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- No, no; not one of them wants to be different; they're as scared of it as the small-pox. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She had a broad sallow face, slightly pitted with small-pox, and thin straw-coloured hair through which her scalp shone unpleasantly. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- That the plague was not what is commonly called contagious, like the scarlet fever, or extinct small-pox, was proved. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The measles and the small-pox were both amazingly fatal. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Measles and small-pox also attacked them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- With the measles or small-pox it would kill every time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She is twenty-nine; her face is much pitted with the small-pox. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Small-pox, think? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A hen that chanced to be inoculated with the weakened virus developed the diseas e, but, after a time, recovered (much as patients after the old-time small pox inoculations). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- During my year on the Columbia River, the small-pox exterminated one small remnant of a band of Indians entirely, and reduced others materially. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- No, no; not one of them wants to be different; they're as scared of it as the small-pox. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She had a broad sallow face, slightly pitted with small-pox, and thin straw-coloured hair through which her scalp shone unpleasantly. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- That the plague was not what is commonly called contagious, like the scarlet fever, or extinct small-pox, was proved. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The measles and the small-pox were both amazingly fatal. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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