Definition of quack

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Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..

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Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
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..
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..
Empirically :: Empirically (adv.) By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
Quackle :: Quackle (v. i. & t.) To suffocate; to choke.
Quackling :: Quackling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quackl.
Quacksalver :: Quacksalver (n.) One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank..
Quackish :: Quackish (a.) Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
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..
Quackeries :: Quackeries (pl. ) of Quacker.
Charlatanical :: Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
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..
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Amethodist :: Amethodist (n.) One without method; a quack.
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..
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..
Saltimbanco :: Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.
Quackery :: Quackery (n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism..
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