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13 words match “LEPER”

LEPER n.
A person affected with leprosy.
LEPERED a.
Affected or tainted with leprosy.
LEPERIZE v.
To affect with leprosy.
LEPEROUS a.
Leprous; infectious; corrupting; poisonous. "The leperous distillment." Shak.
BELEPER v.
To infect with leprosy. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
COLEPERCH n.
A kind of small black perch.
LAZAR n.
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.
MEASLE n.
A leper. [Obs.] [Written also meazel, and mesel.] Wyclif (Matt. x. 8. ).
MEASLES n.
Leprosy; also, a leper. [Obs.]
MESEL n.
A leper. [Obs.]
PROCTOR n.
person appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar. [Obs.] Nares.
STRIKE v.
to wave. Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 2 Kings v. 11.
WILL v.
; to be inclined or disposed; to be pleased; to wish; to desire. And behold, there came a leper and worshiped him, saying, Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus . . . touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. Matt. viii. 2, 3.