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To AMUSE [in a Canting sense],

to fling Dust in the Eyes; also to invent strange Tales to delude Shop keepers and others, from being upon their Guard.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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ALSATIA the Higher
ALSATIA the Lower
ALSATIANS
ALTEMAL
AMBIDEXTER
To AMUSE [in a Canting sense]
AMUSEMENT
AMU'SERS
ANGLERS
ANTICKS
ANTIQUATED

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The Vulgar Tongue originally collected by Grose, 1811.

Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).