Definition of quack

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Quack (a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor..

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Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
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..
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..
Quackling :: Quackling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quackl.
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..
Charlatanical :: Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
Quacking :: Quacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quac.
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
Quackery :: Quackery (n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism..
Quackeries :: Quackeries (pl. ) of Quacker.
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..
Charlatan :: Charlatan (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank..
Quackish :: Quackish (a.) Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
Empirically :: Empirically (adv.) By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
Quack Grass :: Quack grass () See Quitch grass.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Quackle :: Quackle (v. i. & t.) To suffocate; to choke.
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