SPECKED WHIPER.  A coloured hankerchief.  Cant.

Spice.  To rob.  Spice the swell; rob the gentleman.

Spice islands.  A privy.  Stink-hole bay or dilberry creek. 
  The fundament.

Spider-shanked. Thin-legged.

To spiflicate.  To confound, silence, or dumbfound.

Spilt.  A small reward or gift.

Spilt.  Thrown from a horse, or overturned in a carriage;
  pray, coachee, don’t spill us.

Spindle shanks.  Slender legs.

To spirit away.  To kidnap, or inveigle away.

Spiritual flesh broker.  A parson.

Spit.  He is as like his father as if he was spit out of his
  mouth; said of a child much resembling his father.

Spit.  A sword.

Spit fire.  A violent, pettish, or passionate person.

Spliced. Married:  an allusion to joining two ropes ends by
  splicing.  Sea term.

Split crow.  The sign of the spread eagle, which being
  represented with two heads on one neck, gives it somewhat
  the appearance of being split.

Split cause.  A lawyer.

Split Fig.  A grocer.

Split iron.  The nick-name for a smith.

Spooney. (Whip) Thin, haggard, like the shank of a spoon;
  also delicate, craving for something, longing for sweets. 
  Avaricious.  That tit is damned spooney.  She’s a spooney
  piece of goods.  He’s a spooney old fellow.

Spoil pudding.  A parson who preaches long sermons,
  keeping his congregation in church till the puddings are
  overdone.

To sport.  To exhibit:  as, Jack Jehu sported a new gig
  yesterday:  I shall sport a new suit next week.  To sport
  or flash one’s ivory; to shew one’s teeth.  To sport timber;
  to keep one’s outside door shut; this term is used in the
  inns of court to signify denying one’s self.  N.B.  The
  word sport was in great vogue ann. 1783 and 1784.

SPUNGE.  A thirsty fellow, a great drinker.  To spunge; to
  eat and drink at another’s cost.  Spunging-house:  a bailiff’s
  lock-up-house, or repository, to which persons arrested are
  taken, till they find bail, or have spent all their money:  a
  house where every species of fraud and extortion is practised
  under the protection of the law.

Spunk.  Rotten touchwood, or a kind of fungus prepared
  for tinder; figuratively, spirit, courage.

Spoon hand.  The right hand.

To spout.  To rehearse theatrically.

Spouting club.  A meeting of apprentices and mechanics
  to rehearse different characters in plays:  thus forming
  recruits for the strolling companies.