·vt To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
II. Pox ·noun 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 mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water po...
·- A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. ...
farm-yard dung. Berks. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose