Crossword clues for pox
pox
- Old calamity
- Contagious viral infection
- Chicken or small
- Chicken ___ (contagious disease)
- Chicken ___ (common ailment for kids)
- Chicken ___ (childhood affliction)
- Word with chicken or small
- Tot's ailment
- Small ____
- Old-timey curse
- Old curse
- Misfortune wished upon another
- Misfortune wished on another
- Infectious disease that causes a rash
- Disease that causes a skin rash
- Cow or chicken follower
- Chicken flu?
- Chicken __: itchy malady
- Chicken ___ (itchy ailment)
- Chicken ___ (common kids' ailment)
- Chicken __ (childhood malady)
- "A --- upon thee!"
- "A __ upon thee!"
- "A __ on you!": old curse
- "A __ of this gout!": "King Henry IV, Part 2"
- ''A ___ on you!'' (old curse)
- ''A ___ on thee!''
- Hex, of a sort
- Chicken ___ (childhood disease)
- Plague
- Unpleasant illness
- Curse, to King Arthur
- It may leave marks
- "A ___ on you!"
- It comes in a chicken variety
- Chicken ___ (kid's ailment)
- A common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete
- Symptoms change through progressive stages
- Can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)
- A contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks
- Disease of sweet potatoes
- Old curse word
- Disease often connected to small cow or chicken
- Chicken -- (varicella)
- Chicken ___ (childhood ailment)
- Viral disease
- Quaint curse
- Small or chicken
- Shakespearean curse
- "A ___ upon thee!"
- Word with "chicken" or "small"
- Word after chicken or monkey
- Red spot
- Old-fashioned ailment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Pox \Pox\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Poxing.] To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., spelling alteration of pockes, plural of pocke (see pock (n.)). Especially (after c.1500) of syphilis.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks. 2 syphilis. vb. (context transitive dated English) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A pox is a type of disease, often caused by an animal virus, characterised by pockmarks. The term may be used (in an archaic sense) to refer to disease.
Pox, as a disease, may refer to:
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Poxviruses
- Cowpox
- Smallpox, an infectious disease unique to humans, caused by either of two virus variants, Variola major and Variola minor
- Monkeypox, an exotic infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus
- Black pox, a symptom of smallpox caused by bleeding under the skin, which makes the skin look charred or black and usually indicates that a patient with smallpox is going to die
- Canarypox, an Avipoxvirus and etiologic agent of canarypox, a disease of wild and captive birds that can enter humans but is unable to survive or multiply in human cells
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Potyviridae, a family of plant viruses
- Plum pox, the most devastating viral disease of stone fruit from the genus Prunus
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Herpes viruses
- Chickenpox, a highly contagious illness caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV)
- Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochetal bacteria Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum
- Rickettsialpox, a rickettsial disease spread by mites
In computing, it may refer to:
- Pox: Save the People, a 2010 board game and mobile game
- P-O-X, a 2001 handheld electronic game
- PoxNora, a 2006 multiplayer online game that combines a collectible card game with a turn-based strategy game in a fantasy setting
- Plain Old XML, basic XML, a computer data representation format
- Orthopox 13, a character in the video game series Destroy All Humans!
In other uses, pox or POX may refer to:
- Pox (drink), a ceremonial drink common among the Maya, especially those in Chamula
- POx, premature oxidation of wine
- Partial oxidation, a chemical reaction
- The P.O.X., a German band
- Pox, small rounded pegs of candy that are attached to a strip of paper
- President's Overseas XV, a 1971 rugby union squad, chosen to celebrate the centenary of the English Rugby Football Union, the oldest national rugby organisation in existence
"Pox" is a liquor commonly used for ceremonial purposes among the Mayans of Mexico and Central America. "Pox" is a liquor made of corn, sugar cane and wheat, very important in mayan culture for its ceremonial uses and is also known as aguardiente. Besides its religious significance it is also a somewhat popular alcoholic drink in the Chiapas region of Southern Mexico. The word "pox" in Tzotzil means "medicine, cane liquor, cure." 1 Pox was commonly used in religious ceremonies and festivals in San Juan Chamula, Chiapas, but increasingly soda has been substituted for it.
Usage examples of "pox".
Or, he is the Faustus, That casteth figures and can conjure, cures Plagues, piles, and pox, by the ephemerides, And holds intelligence with all the bawds And midwives of three shires: while you send in -- Captain!
Massey has bruised her soul and I think given her lesions on mouth and cunny that bespeak the pox.
This cackle of geriatric cynicism ill became such a creature made for pleasure as Jeanne, but was pox not the emblematic fate of a creature made for pleasure and the price you paid for the atrocious mixture of corruption and innocence this child of the sun brought with her from the Antilles?
He who slew him was the surgeon Feuchter at Cremsir, who applied thirtysix mercurial plasters on a gland in his left groin which was swollen but not by the pox, as I am sure by the description he gave me of the cause of the swelling.
Sixteen years of motherhood, of nursing fevers and flues, chicken pox and measles, fractures and stitches, kicked into high gear.
It was thought that the slaughter of slaves had had its role to play in the containment of the pox in the vicinity of Bazi.
He who slew him was the surgeon Feuchter at Cremsir, who applied thirtysix mercurial plasters on a gland in his left groin which was swollen but not by the pox, as I am sure by the description he gave me of the cause of the swelling.
Spanish poxes, cause poxes done a lot more damage than all them swords and blunderbusses put together.
The epidemics of small pox, which had at times decimated whole tribes of Indians, were got rid of by the introduction of vaccination.
Ryan Cawdor had to have passed through hundreds of these stinking little frontier pestholes, with their filthy hovels and their poxed gaudies and brutally dangerous drinking bars.
There are a few gaudies and scabby sluts who pox you just by breathing on you.
Surely there is no illness on all Caledonia more fearsome than the pox.
In addition to the Bacillus anthracis anthrax that was identified that first day, based on the symptoms, it was quickly determined that Variola major – hemorrhagic, the most fatal version of small pox, and Yersinia pestis, commonly known as the Plague, had all been involved in the weapon that was employed against the United States and the rest of the free world.
These included “milliner’s sniffle, ploughman’s hunch, blains which pain the privy member, rat pox, cacky ear, trouser mite, the curly worms that worry from within” and sundry other terrible afflictions.
A bad combination of cancelers will kill a patient as easily as the blue pox.