Lazar, n. [OF. lazare, fr. Lazarus the beggar. Luke xvi. 20.].
A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.
Chaucer. [
1913 Webster]
"Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay."
[1913 Webster]
Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.