A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.
Of
pokkes
and of scab every sore.
Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pock
POCK
,
Noun.
[Eng. big.] A pustule raised on the surface of the body in the variolous and vaccine diseases, named from the pustules, small pox, or as it ought to be written,small pocks.