Definition of quack

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

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Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
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..
Empirically :: Empirically (adv.) By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
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..
Mountebankish :: Mountebankish (a.) Like a mountebank or his 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..
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..
Saltimbanco :: Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.
Quack :: Quack (n.) The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise..
Quackling :: Quackling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quackl.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
Charlatanical :: Charlatanical (a.) Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish.
Quackeries :: Quackeries (pl. ) of Quacker.
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Quackish :: Quackish (a.) Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..
Charlatan :: Charlatan (n.) One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank..
Salver :: Salver (n.) One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack..
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