Spouting.  Theatrical declamation.

Spouted. Pawned.

Spread.  Butter.

Spread eagle.  A soldier tied to the halberts in order to
  be whipped; his attitude bearing some likeness to that
  figure, as painted on signs.

Spree.  A frolic.  Fun.  A drinking bout.  A party of
  pleasure.

Spring-ankle warehouse.  Newgate, or any other gaol: 
  Irish.

Squab.  A fat man or woman:  from their likeness to a
  well-stuffed couch, called also a squab.  A new-hatched
  chicken.

Square.  Honest, not roguish.  A square cove, i.e. a
  man who does not steal, or get his living by dishonest
  means.

Square toes.  An old man:  square toed shoes were
  anciently worn in common, and long retained by old
  men.

Squeak.  A narrow escape, a chance:  he had a squeak for
  his life.  To squeak; to confess, peach, or turn stag. 
  They squeak beef upon us; they cry out thieves after
  us.  Cant.

Squeaker.  A bar-boy; also a bastard or any other child. 
  To stifle the squeaker; to murder a bastard, or throw It
  into the necessary house.—­Organ pipes are likewise called
  squeakers.  The squeakers are meltable; the small
  pipes are silver.  Cant.

Squeeze crab.  A sour-looking, shrivelled, diminutive
  fellow.

Squeeze wax.  A good-natured foolish fellow, ready to
  become security for another, under hand and seal.

Squelch.  A fall.  Formerly a bailiff caught in a barrack-
  yard in Ireland, was liable by custom to have three tosses
  in a blanket, and a squelch; the squelch was given by letting
  go the corners of the blanket, and suffering him to
  fall to the ground.  Squelch-gutted; fat, having a prominent
  belly.

Squib.  A small satirical or political temporary jeu d’esprit,
  which, like the firework of that denomination, sparkles,
  bounces, stinks, and vanishes.

Squint-A-pipes.  A squinting man or woman; said to
  be born in the middle of the week, and looking both
  ways for Sunday; or born in a hackney coach, and looking
  out of both windows; fit for a cook, one eye in the
  pot, and the other up the chimney; looking nine ways at
  once.

Squire of Alsatia.  A weak profligate spendthrift, the
  squire of the company; one who pays the whole reckoning,
  or treats the company, called standing squire.

Squirish.  Foolish.

Squirrel.  A prostitute:  because she like that animal, covers
  her back with her tail.  Meretrix corpore corpus alit. 
  Menagiana, ii. 128.

Squirrel hunting.  See hunting.