Defn: 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.]
Defn: To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
POY
Poy, n. Etym: [OF. apui, apoi, a support, prop., staff, F. appui, fr.
OF. apuier, apoier, to support, F. appuyer, fr. à to (L. ad) + OF.
pui, poi, a rising ground, hill, L. podium. See Podium, Pew.]
1. A support; — used in composition; as, teapoy.
2. A ropedancer's balancing pole. Johnson.
3. A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
POYNADO
Poy*na"do, n.
Defn: A poniard. [Obs.] Lyly.