Definition of quack

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Quack (v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.

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Quack :: Quack (n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise..
Medicaster :: Medicaster (n.) A quack.
Mountebank :: Mountebank (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 infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
Quack :: Quack (n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan..
Quack Grass :: Quack grass () See Quitch grass.
Empirically :: Empirically (adv.) By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
Quack :: Quack (a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor..
Merry-andrew :: Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor..
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..
Quackery :: Quackery (n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism..
Quackism :: Quackism (n.) Quackery.
Empiricism :: Empiricism (n.) Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery..
Charlatanical :: Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
Charlatan :: Charlatan (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank..
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine..
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
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