Word Meanings - QUACKSALVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. Burton.

Related words: (words related to QUACKSALVER)

• CHARLATANISM
  Charlatanry.
• CHARLATANIC; CHARLATANICAL
  Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; empirical; pretentious; quackish. -- Char`la*tan"ic*al*ly, adv.
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• QUACK
  1. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck. 2. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras. 3. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
• QUACKISM
  Quackery. Carlyle.
• SKILLED
  Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.
• SKILLIGALEE
  A kind of thin, weak broth or oatmeal porridge, served out to prisoners and paupers in England; also, a drink made of oatmeal, sugar, and water, sometimes used in the English navy or army.
• EFFICACY
  Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. "Of noxious efficacy." Milton. Syn. -- Virtue; force;
• MOUNTEBANKISM
  The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
• QUACK GRASS
  See GRASS
• MOUNTEBANK
  1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
• CHARLATAN
  One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank. (more info) to chartter, prate; of imitative origin; cf. It. zirlare to whistle
• QUACKLE
  To suffocate; to choke.
• MOUNTEBANKERY
  The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
• QUACKSALVER
  One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. Burton.
• MOUNTEBANKISH
  Like a mountebank or his quackery. Howell.
• CHARLATANRY
  Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.
• BURTON
  A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.
• QUACKERY
  The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.
• UNSKILLFUL
  1. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician. 2. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant. Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve. Shak. --
• COEFFICACY
  Joint efficacy.
• UNSKILL
  Want of skill; ignorance; unskillfulness. Sylvester.