Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lazar"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lazar \La"zar\, n. [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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lazar
n : a person afflicted with leprosy [syn: {leper}]
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