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.
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