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noun 
  1. One who sells dubious medicines
There is nothing so impossible in Nature but mountebanks will undertake; nothing so incredible but they will affirm. - John Bull
  1. one who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.
verb 
  1. (intransitive) To act as a mountebank
Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,<br>Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved - Coriolanus, w:William Shakespeare, Wm. Shakespeare

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