clowes n.also clows[? cloy n.]a rogue, a villain.Show quotationsc.1698B.E. Dict. Canting Crew. 1725New Canting Dict. 1737, 1759, 1760, 1776Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. 1785, 1788, 1796Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. 1811Lex. Balatronicum. 1823Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. c.1850Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict. 1871–82B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.