Swinging.  A great swinging fellow; a great stout fellow. 
  A swinging lie; a lusty lie.

Swindler.  One who obtains goods on credit by false pretences,
  and sells them for ready money at any price, in order
  to make up a purse.  This name is derived from the German
  word SCHWINDLIN, to totter, to be ready to fall; these
  arts being generally practised by persons on the totter, or
  just ready to break.  The term swindler has since been
  used to signify cheats of every kind.

Swipes.  Purser’s swipes; small beer:  so termed on board
  the king’s ships, where it is furnished by the purser.

Swish tail.  A pheasant; so called by the persons who
  sell game for the poachers.

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.

Taffy, i.e.  Davy.  A general name for a Welchman, St.
  David being the tutelar saint of Wales.  Taffy’s day; the
  first of March, St. David’s day.

Tag-rag and bobtail.  An expression meaning an assemblage
  of low people, the mobility of all sorts.  To tag
  after one like a tantony pig:  to follow one wherever one
  goes, just as St. Anthony is followed by his pig.

Tail.  A prostitute.  Also, a sword.

Taken in.  Imposed on, cheated.

Tale tellers.  Persons said to have been formerly hired
  to tell wonderful stories of giants and fairies, to lull their
  hearers to sleep.  Talesman; the author of a story or
  report:  I’ll tell you my tale, and my talesman.  Tale bearers;
  mischief makers, incendiaries in families.

Tall boy.  A bottle, or two-quart pot.

Tally men.  Brokers that let out clothes to the women of
  the town.  See rabbit suckers.