TO SWIVE. To copulate.
SWIVEL-EYED. Squinting.
SWIZZLE. Drink, or any brisk or windy liquor. In North
America, a mixture of spruce beer, rum, and sugar, was so
called. The 17th regiment had a society called the Swizzle
Club, at Ticonderoga, A. D. 1760.
SWORD RACKET. To enlist in different regiments, and on
receiving the bounty to desert immediately.
SWOP. An exchange.
SYEBUCK. Sixpence.
SYNTAX. A schoolmaster.
TABBY. An old maid; either from Tabitha, a formal antiquated name; or else from a tabby cat, old maids being often compared to cats. To drive Tab; to go out on a party of pleasure with a wife and family.
TACE. Silence, hold your tongue. TACE is Latin for a candle; a jocular admonition to be silent on any subject.
TACKLE. A mistress; also good clothes. The cull has
tipt his tackle rum gigging; the fellow has given his
mistress good clothes. A man's tackle: the genitals.