\Mount"e*bank\, 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 infalliable
   remedies; a quack doctor.
         Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
         a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able
         physician.                            --Whitlock.
2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
         Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will
         undertake.                            --Arbuthnot.

\Mount"e*bank\, v. t.
To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.]
--Shak.

\Mount"e*bank\, v. i.
To play the mountebank.