Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for QUACK'SALV-ER
QUACK'SALV-ER, n. [Sw. qvacksalfvare; quack and salve.]
One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan. – Brown. Burton.
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