Mountebank

Definition of Mountebank

Mount´e`bank

n.	1.	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 infallible remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able physician. - Whitlock.
	2.	Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. - Arbuthnot.
v. t.	1.	To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
v. i.	1.	To play the mountebank.

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