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One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who

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One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who gained patients by facetious speeches to the multitude.

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  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• QUACK
  1. To utter a sound like the cry of a duck. 2. To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras. 3. To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
• QUACKISM
  Quackery. Carlyle.
• DOCTORAL
  Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood.
• BUFFOONERY
  The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.
• BUFFOONISH
  Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures. Blair.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• SPORTLESS
  Without sport or mirth; joyless.
• SPORTING
  Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• MOUNTEBANKISM
  The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
• DOCTORLY
  Like a doctor or learned man. "Doctorly prelates." Foxe.
• QUACK GRASS
  See GRASS
• MOUNTEBANK
  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
• SPORTAL
  Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
• DISPORT
  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• DISPORTMENT
  Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More.