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Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a
mountebank . . . is preferred before an able
physician.

2. Any boastful or false pretender; a
charlatan; a quack.

Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks
will undertake.

Mount"e*bank, v. t. To cheat by
boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.

Mount"e*bank, v. i. To play the
mountebank.

Mount"e*bank`er*y (?), n. The
practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain
pretenses.

Mount"e*bank`ish, a. Like a
mountebank or his quackery. Howell.

Mount"e*bank*ism (?), n. The
practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.

Mount"ed, a. 1.
Seated or serving on horseback or similarly; as, mounted
police; mounted infantry.

2. Placed on a suitable support, or fixed in
a setting; as, a mounted gun; a mounted map; a
mounted gem.


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