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One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack. [Obs.]

Tubular, with a speading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.

One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. [Obs.] Burton.

hypocraterimorphous; salver-shaped. Wood.

Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.

A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.

An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.

A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.

An ornamental tray, dish, or the like, used as a salver.

A mountebank; a quack. [Obs.] [Written also santibanco.] Saltimbancos, quacksalvers, and charlatans. Sir T. browne.

Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon. Woodward.

A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.

A salver, platter, or tray. [Obs.]

A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.

A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. Coast waiter. See under Coast, n.