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Date "SMALL-POX" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A generalized virus infection with a vesicular rash. (references) |
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Crosswords: SMALL-POX |
| Specialty definitions using "SMALL-POX": Orinda. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Public Health: An incident of the small-pox epidemic in Montreal] / Robert Harris. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Small-Pox : Variola & Vaccinia. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Crime-wave, Lady! bless yer heart, no! : it's nothin but an epidemic-like small-pox ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The small-pox troubles in Milwaukee, Wisconsin--residents of foreign birth resist the transfer of patients to the isolation hospital / drawn by Miss G.A. Davis ; from a sketch supplied by Fred. Dougherty. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
St. Evremond | Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox. |
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| "SMALL-POX" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SMALL-POX" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SMALL-POX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Scottish | boicineach. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: smallpox. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-l-m-o-p-s-x" | |
-2 letters: slalom. | |
-3 letters: lamps, loams, malls, molal, molas, molls, moxas, ollas, opals, palls, palms, plasm, polls, psalm, salol, small, spall. | |
-4 letters: alls, alms, alps, also, amps, lamp, lams, laps, loam, lops, mall, maps, moas, mola, moll, mols, mops, moxa, olla, opal, pall, palm, pals, pams, poll, pols, poms, sall, salp, samp, slam, slap, slop. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-l-m-o-p-s-x" | |
+2 letters: smallpoxes. | |
+4 letters: morphallaxes, morphallaxis. | |
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