Vice |
A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse. |
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Vice |
A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance. |
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Vice |
The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity. |
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Vice |
A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise. |
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Vice |
A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements. |
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