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.
Mount"e*bank`er*y (?), n. The practices of a mountebank; quackery;
boastful and vain pretenses.
Mount"e*bank`ish, a. Like a mountebank or his quackery. Howell.
Mount"e*bank*ism (?), n. The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
Mount"ed, a. 1. Seated or serving on horseback or similarly; as,
mounted police; mounted infantry.
2. Placed on a suitable support, or fixed in a setting; as, a mounted
gun; a mounted map; a mounted gem.