Pox /(?)/

Pox

n.
  1. 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. (Med.)

Pox

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Poxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing

  1. To infect with the pox, or syphilis.