n. [ It. montimbanco, montambanco; montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount, and 4th Bank. ] 1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies; a quack doctor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To play the mountebank. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a mountebank or his quackery. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Seated or serving on horseback or similarly; as, mounted police; mounted infantry. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Placed on a suitable support, or fixed in a setting; as, a mounted gun; a mounted map; a mounted gem. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mountance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who mounts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An animal mounted; a monture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Arch.) Having its vertical height greater than the half span; -- said of an arch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) Partly covered by another charge; -- said of an ordinary or other bearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, surmounts. [ 1913 Webster ]