Mountebank
Pronunciation : Mount"e*bank
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [It. montimbanco, montambanco; montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount, and 4th Bank.]
Definition : 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 infalliable 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Mount"e*bank
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.
t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Mount"e*bank
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To play the mountebank.
i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913