DCHP-1 Online
lazarus [origin unknown] Nfld, Obs. 
n. a variety of seal.
- 1774 (1792) At noon I went in a skiff and hauled the nets under the Lyon Head, and had a lazarus in one of them.
- 1861 The next seal I have to catalogue (there is nothing special in it to describe) generally loiters on the coast later than the Harp, and frequents it sooner in the spring: it is called the Lazarus.
- 1774 (1792) At noon I went in a skiff and hauled the nets under the Lyon Head, and had a lazarus in one of them.