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Webster 1913 Edition


Lazar

La′zar

,
Noun.
[OF.
lazare
, fr.
Lazarus
the beggar.
Luke xvi
.
20
.]
A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
Chaucer.
Like loathsome
lazars
, by the hedges lay.
Spenser.
Lazar house
a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.

Webster 1828 Edition


Lazar

LA'ZAR

,
Noun.
[from Laxarus.] A person infected with nauseous and pestilential disease.