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quacksalver |
1 definition found 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.
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