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CLEYMS,

Sores without Pain, raised on Beggars Bodies, by their own Artifice and Cunning, (to move Charity) by bruising Crows-foot, Spearwort, and Salt together, and clapping them onthe Place, which frets the Skin; then with a Linnen Rag, which sticks close to it, they tear off the Skin, and strew on it a little Powder'd rsnick, which makes it look angrily or ill-favouredly, as if it were a real Sore.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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CLAW'D-OFF
CLEAR
CLEAVE
CLENCH
To CLENCH
CLEYMS
CLERK'D
To CLICK
CLICKER
CLICKET
CLICKETING

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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).