Noun:

ठगविद्या करनेवाला, मिथ्या चिकित्सक, कुबैद्य, बत्तख का शब्द, नीमहकीम,

Verb:

शेख़ी मारना,

quack's Usage Examples:

His graceful and captivating style was imitated by IIakIm Khabbaz of Nishkptfr, a great baker, poet and quack; Aba Shuaib ~klili of HerSt, who left a spirited little song in honor of a young Christian maiden; Raunaqi of Bokhgra; Abtil-Fat,l7 of Bust, who was also a good Arabic poet; the amIr Aba l-Ilasan All AlagatchI, who handled the pen as skilfully as the sword; Umara of Merv, a famous astronomer; and Kisf, a native of the sametown, a man of stern and ascetic manners, who sang in melodious rhythm the praise of Al!

The terrible losses sustained by whole communities of farmers, planters, foresters, 'c., from plant diseases have naturally stimulated the search for remedies, but even now the search is too often conducted in the spirit of the believer in quack medicines, although the agricultural world is awakening to the fact that before any measures likely to be successful can be attempted, the whole chain of causation of the disease must be investigated.

kwaksalver), in which form it is common in the 17th century, "salver" meaning "healer," while "quack" (Du.

In after years he so far forgot himself as to write of Saint-Simon as a depraved quack, and to deplore his connexion with him as purely mischievous.

The latter process, which was known to Basil Valentine, was commercially applied by the quack doctor, Joshua Ward (1685-1761), of Twickenham, England, to the manufacture of the acid, which was known as "oil of vitriol made by the bell" or per campanum.

Although Grattan had a profound contempt for Emmet's political understanding, describing him as a quack in politics who set up his own crude notions as settled rules, Emmet was among the more prudent of the United Irishmen on the eve of the rebellion.

A quack is one who pretends to knowledge of which he is ignorant, a charlatan, particularly a medical impostor.

ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN (1807-1874), French politician, was the grandson of Nicolas Philippe Ledru, the celebrated quack doctor known as "Comus" under Louis XIV., and was born in a house that was once Scarron's, at Fontenay-aux-Roses (Seine), on the 2nd of February 1807.

In English law, to call a medical practitioner a "quack" is actionable per se without proof of special damage (Allen v.

Hence the modern sense of empirical as applied to the guess work of an untrained quack or charlatan.

Synonyms:

Dr., doctor, physician, charlatan, mountebank, medico, doc, MD,

Antonyms:

incomplete, mitigated, specify, close up, shout,