† pazar
obs. form of bezoar [Pers. pād-zahr] q.v. a. = bezoar 2. b. = bezoar 3. (In the latter use app. confounded with pazan, pasan.)
| 1563 Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. ii. 7 b, Two graines of Pazar, whiche is a stone that commeth out of Portugal, and is grene & tawnie. 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 508 The Bezar-stones are likewise taken out of the maw of a Persian or Indian Goat, which the Persians call Pazar. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 75 The word bezoar is supposed to take its name either from the pazan or pazar, which is the animal that produces it; or from a word in the Arabic language, which signifies antidote, or counter-poison. |