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AMU'SERS,

who were wont to have their Pockets filled with Dust, which they would throw into the Eyes of People they had a mind to rob, and so run away, while their Comerade, who followed them, under the Notion of pitying the half blinded Person, laid his Hand on whatever came next.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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ALSATIANS
ALTEMAL
AMBIDEXTER
To AMUSE [in a Canting sense]
AMUSEMENT
AMU'SERS
ANGLERS
ANTICKS
ANTIQUATED
ARCH-ROGUE
ARK

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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).