Usually means: Seller of fake medical remedies.
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  1. quacksalver: Merriam-Webster
  2. quacksalver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. quacksalver: Collins English Dictionary
  4. quacksalver: Wordnik
  5. quacksalver: Wiktionary
  6. quacksalver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. quacksalver: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Quacksalver, quacksalver: Dictionary.com
  9. Quacksalver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. quacksalver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Quacksalver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. quacksalver: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. quacksalver: FreeDictionary.org
  14. quacksalver: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. quacksalver: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quacksalver: A Word A Day

Definitions from Wiktionary (quacksalver)

noun:  (archaic) One falsely claiming to possess medical or other skills, especially one who dispenses potions, ointments, etc., supposedly having curative powers; a quack.

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