mountebank

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One who sells dubious medicines.

   “She is abus'd, ſtolne from me, and corrupted / By Spels, and Medicines, bought of Mountebanks”

2. isim One who sells by deception; a con artist.

   “Donne was a mountebank who wrapped up his lack of meaning in hard words.”

3. isim Any boastful, false pretender.

   “They ſay this towne is full of coſenage: / As nimble Iuglers that deceiue the eie: / Darke working Sorcerers that change the minde: / Soule-killing Witches that deforme the bodie: / Diſguiſed Cheaters, prating Mountebankes, / And manie ſuch like liberties of ſinne:”

4. isim An acrobat.
5. fiil To act as a mountebank.
6. fiil To cheat by boasting and false pretenses.

   “Ile Mountebanke their Loues, / Cogge their Hearts from them,”