quacksalver

[Dut. kwakzalver =a charlatan; kwakzalven to quack, to puff up salves; Ger. quacksalber.] One who brags of his medicines or salves; a quack-doctor; a charlatan; a quack. "To turn mountebanks, quacksalvers, empiricks." Burton: Anat. Melan . (Demo crit us to the Reader.) quăck-săl-ving, a. [QUACKSALVER.] Characteristic of or used by quacks; quack. "Quacksalving cheating mountebanks, your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill." Mas singer: Virgin Marty, iv. 1. quãd (1), quod, subst . [A contr. of quadrangle (q. v.).] The quadrangle or court, as of a college, jail, .; hence, a prison, a jail.