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MOON-Curser,

a Link-boy, or one that, under Colour of lighting Men, (especially they who get in Drink, or have the Fields, or any uninhabited or By place, to go over) robs or leads them to a Gang of Rogues, that will do it for him.

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Entry taken from 1736 Canting Dictionary, by Nathan Bailey.

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MISH Topper
MISS
MOABITES
MOB
MONGREL
MOON-Curser
MOON-Men
MOPSIE
MOP'D
MOPUS
MORGLAG

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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).