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ˈhorse-pox
[See pox.]
†1. A severe or virulent pox. (Used in coarse execrations.) Obs.
1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 115 With a Horse-pox and a Murrain. 1667Dk. Newcastle & Dryden Sir Martin Mar-all iv. i, Leave off your winking and your pinking, with a horse-pox t'ye. 1694Echard Plautus Pref. A iij, I'll fetch ye out with a Horse-pox for a damnable, prying, nine-eyed Witch.
2. A pustular disease of horses, said, when communicated to cows, to produce cow-pox.
1884N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 15 Nov. 548 An outbreak of casual ‘horse-pox’ among the she-asses. 1897Allbutt Syst. Med. II. 636 He explained the failure on the part of many experimenters to transmit horse-pox to the cow. |