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quacksalver

quacksalver


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Quacksalver  \Quack"sal*ver\,  n.  [D.  kwakzalver  cf  kwakzalven 
  to  quack  or  boast  of  one's  salves.  See  {Quack},  {Salve},  n.] 
  One  who  boasts  of  his  skill  in  medicines  and  salves,  or  of 
  the  efficacy  of  his  prescriptions;  a  charlatan;  a  quack;  a 
  mountebank.  [Obs.]  --Burton.