[pox] n, pl pox or pox.es [alter. of pocks, pl. of pock] (1550) 1 a: a virus disease (as chicken pox) characterized by pustules or eruptions b archaic: smallpox c: syphilis
2: a disastrous evil: plague, curse "a ~ on him"
[2]pox vt (1601) archaic: to infect with a pox and esp. with syphilis