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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Dictionary Results for mountebank:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
mountebank
    n 1: a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with
         tricks or jokes [syn: mountebank, charlatan]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. t.
   To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.]
   --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, v. i.
   To play the mountebank.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mountebank \Mount"e*bank\, n. [It. montimbanco, montambanco;
   montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount,
   and 4th Bank.]
   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 infallible remedies;
      a quack doctor.
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            Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
            a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able
            physician.                            --Whitlock.
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   2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
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            Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will
            undertake.                            --Arbuthnot.
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