MOUNTEBANK
\mˈa͡ʊntɪbˌaŋk], \mˈaʊntɪbˌaŋk], \m_ˈaʊ_n_t_ɪ_b_ˌa_ŋ_k]\
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Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
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To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
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To play the mountebank.
By Oddity Software
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Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
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To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
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To play the mountebank.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).