Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SWINE-POCKS, or SWINE-POX
SWINE-POCKS, or SWINE-POX, n.
The chicken-pocks. [Local.] A variety of the chicken-pocks, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water-pocks. – Good.
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