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Webster 1913 Edition

Quacksalver

Quack′sal-ver

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Noun.

[D.

kwakzalver

; cf.

kwakzalven

to quack or boast of one’s salves. See

,

,

Noun.

]

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.