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Quackeries :: Quackeries (pl. ) of Quacker.

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

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..

Medicaster :: Medicaster (n.) A quack.

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

Quacking :: Quacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quac.

Quackery :: Quackery (n.) The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism..

Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

Quackish :: Quackish (a.) Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.

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..

Saltimbanco :: Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.

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

Empirically :: Empirically (adv.) By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.

Quack :: Quack (n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan..

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..

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.

Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.

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 utter a sound like the cry of a duck.

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