POX
\pˈɒks], \pˈɒks], \p_ˈɒ_k_s]\
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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.
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To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
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