1. (n.) 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.

2. (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

3. (v. t.) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

4. (v. i.) To play the mountebank.

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