Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An acute contagious febrile disease of sheep, accompanied by an eruption closely resembling that of smallpox; variola ovina.
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Examples
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Having been in correspondence with Paget lately on another subject, I mentioned to him an analogy which has struck me much, now that we know that sheep-pox is fungoid; and this analogy pleased him.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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At another time, also, at the school at Lyons, a sheep died of the regular sheep-pox.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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No effect was produced on the dog, but the sheep died of confluent sheep-pox.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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