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Definition of "quacksalver" []

  • Archaic A quack or charlatan. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "quacksalver" in a sentence
  • "The quacksalver was at first one who made, sold, or applied ointments or oils."
  • "I have done ill to unbosom myself so far to this poisonous quacksalver."
  • "I have only to add that the union of the poisoner, the quacksalver, the alchemist, and the astrologer in the same person was familiar to the pretenders to the mystic sciences."
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