Defn: Amount; sum; quantity; extent. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MOUNTANT
Mount"ant, a. Etym: [F. montant, p.pr. of monter. See Mount, and cf.
Montant.]
Defn: Raised; high. [Obs.]
MOUNTEBANK Mount"e*bank, n. Etym: [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.
MOUNTEBANK
Mount"e*bank, v. t.
Defn: To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.
MOUNTEBANK
Mount"e*bank, v. i.
Defn: To play the mountebank.