Definition of vice

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Vice (n.) A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements..

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Earn :: Earn (v. t.) To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels..
Advice :: Advice (n.) An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel..
Patriotic :: Patriotic (a.) Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance..
Adscript :: Adscript (n.) One held to service as attached to the glebe or estate; a feudal serf.
Desert :: Desert (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond..
Forestage :: Forestage (n.) A service paid by foresters to the king.
Tension :: Tension (a.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness..
Separate :: Separate (v. t.) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service..
Requital :: Requital (n.) The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital of services; in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil deeds..
Support :: Support (v. t.) A attend as an honorary assistant; as, a chairman supported by a vice chairman; O'Connell left the prison, supported by his two sons..
Interchange :: Interchange (v. t.) To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly offices and services..
Scene :: Scene (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes..
Ovicell :: Ovicell (n.) One of the dilatations of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.
Viceroy :: Viceroy (prep.) The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India..
Dessert :: Dessert (n.) A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner..
Relay :: Relay (n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing..
Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
Impresa :: Impresa (n.) A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like..
Sound :: Sound (v. i.) To ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
Crevice :: Crevice (v. t.) To crack; to flaw.
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