Pox : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Pox	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Pox
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pox n a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) Synonym(s): syphilis, syph, pox, lues venerea, lues a contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pox \Pox\, n. [For pocks, OE. pokkes. See {Pock}. It is plural in form but is used as a singular.] (Med.) 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. Note: Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pox \Pox\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poxed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poxing}.] To infect with the pox, or syphilis.