Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of pox is as below...

Xanthin :: Xanthin (n.) A crystalline nitrogenous body closely related to both uric acid and hypoxanthin, present in muscle tissue, and occasionally found in the urine and in some urinary calculi. It is also present in guano. So called from the yellow color of certain of its salts (nitrates)..

Kinepox :: Kinepox (n.) See Kinetoscope.

Pockmark :: Pockmark (n.) A mark or pit made by smallpox.

Inoculate :: Inoculate (v. t.) To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate..

Fretten :: Fretten (a.) Rubbed; marked; as, pock-fretten, marked with the smallpox..

Pit :: Pit (v. t.) To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox..

Pitted :: Pitted (a.) Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2..

Variolation :: Variolation (n.) Inoculation with smallpox.

Syphilitic :: Syphilis (n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary..

Sarkin :: Sarkin (n.) Same as Hypoxanthin.

Poxing :: Poxing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Po.

Cowpock :: Cowpock (n.) See Cowpox.

Communication :: Communication (n.) The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret..

Chicken Pox :: Chicken pox () A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella..

Varioloid :: Varioloid (a.) Resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid.

Kinepox :: Kinepox (n.) See Cowpox.

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire..

Smallpox :: Smallpox (n.) A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick crusts which slough after a certain time, often leaving a pit, or scar..

Pock-broken :: Pock-broken (a.) Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten..

Poxed :: Poxed (imp. & p. p.) of Po.

Random Fonts

Most Popular