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. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Med.) Typhus fever. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ F. lazaret, or It. lazzeretto, fr. Lazarus. See Lazar. ] 1. A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) (Pronounced by seamen A low space under the after part of the main deck, used as a storeroom. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. (R. C. Ch.) One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Full of sores; leprous. Shak. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Lazzaroni. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Laserwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To waste in sloth; to spend, as time, in idleness; as, to laze away whole days. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Lazed p. pr. & vb. n. Lazing. ] [ See Lazy. ] To be lazy or idle. [ Colloq. ] Middleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a lazy manner. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]