Mountebank

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To play the mountebank.

II. Mountebank ·noun Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

III. Mountebank ·vt To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to Gull.

IV. Mountebank ·noun One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.

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