| 释义 |
small-pock Now rare or Obs.
Also small pock.
[small a. 3.]
One of the pustules which appear on the skin in the disease of smallpox; the disease itself. Also attrib.
14..,1530[see pock n. 2 β]. 1736Ainsworth Lat. Dict. ii, Pustula,..a small pock. 1797Phil. Trans. LXXXVII. 207 The upper part..was a little concave, like the head of a turned small-pock. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 339 Master T―, the first subject mentioned with Small-pock, died on the 27th. 1825Q. Rev. XXXIII. 238 Valli diluted the pestilential matter with small-pock matter. |