242. _Bet_, better, adv.; as distinguished from _bettre_, adj. (l. 524).
_lazar_, a leper; from _Lazarus_, in the parable of Dives and Lazarus;
hence _lazaretto_, a hospital for lepers, a lazar-house.
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