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the pox
noun
A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
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The Pox is a relic.
He is suffering from the pox.
The most popular cure for the pox was mercury.
Beware the Pox! Pox is contagious!" Angel and the other alpha pups could not sit still.
The means to thwart the pox was apparent in the 1720's.
The evil grey squirrel has infected her with the pox virus, and she's a goner.
And yet of all the pox viruses, it is the one most closely related to smallpox.
The most familiar member of the pox virus family is in some ways the most mysterious.
Meanwhile, the greys are carrying the pox into Scotland, the last stronghold of the red squirrel.
Not many weeks later she heard that Elizabeth had got the pox.
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More than a disparate five-finger exercise, Confusions becomes the middle-England equivalent of Schnitzler's pass-the-pox satire La Ronde, in which only the laughter is infectious.
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