pock

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You have heard of Sitting Bull, Rain in the Face (that is, a pock-marked individual), Antelope, and others of like character, could be drawn, and thus convey the name without difficulty.

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  1. noun A pustule caused by smallpox or a similar eruptive disease.
  2. noun A mark or scar left in the skin by such a pustule; a pockmark.
  3. transitive verb To mark with pocks; pit.

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  • It swung up, and he saw a pock-marked face that was twisted in a smile meant to be ingratiating You've got a pad on your tail," the kid said, again as low as his amplifier would permit. —  Police Your Planet
  • What the hell do they want it for Izzy jerked a shoulder upwards and a twist ran across his pock-marked face. —  Police Your Planet
  • Once, and once only, I received a nod of recognition; but although I had succeeded in gaining a closer proximity than usual, all that I could ascertain through the deep folds of the lady's crape, was an impression that she was pale, pensive, a little pock-marked, and five and thirty. —  Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman
  • He was a sturdily built man, with a rough voice, catlike eyes, bearing in his pock-marked face and leaden complexion marks of the mischief wrought by a sedentary and indoor life on a vigorous constitution adapted to the open air and violent exercise. —  Dieux ont soif. English
  • She was visualizing her own beauty spoilt, her fair skin deeply pitted with pock-marks, her colour all gone. —  There was a King in Egypt
 

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  1. Middle English pokke, from Old English pocc.

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  1. from Middle English pokke, plural pokkes, from Anglo-Saxon poc (pocc-), a pustule, = Middle Dutch pocke, D, pok = Middle Low German pocke, poche, Low German pokken, plural, = German dial. pfocke (German pocke, from Low German), a pustule, German pocken, plural, smallpox; cf. Gael, pucaid, a pimple, Ir.pucoid (?), a pustule, pucadh, a swelling up; akin to poke, a bag. Hence plural pocks, taken, especially in small pocks, as a singular, and spelled disguisedly pox.
 

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