[vahys] 
,| 1. | an immoral or evil habit or practice. |
| 2. | immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior: a life of vice. |
| 3. | sexual immorality, esp. prostitution. |
| 4. | a particular form of depravity. |
| 5. | a fault, defect, or shortcoming: a minor vice in his literary style. |
| 6. | a physical defect, flaw, or infirmity: a constitutional vice. |
| 7. | a bad habit, as in a horse. |
| 8. | (initial capital letter ) a character in the English morality plays, a personification of general vice or of a particular vice, serving as the buffoon. |
[vahys] noun, verb, vised, vis⋅ing.| 1. | any of various devices, usually having two jaws that may be brought together or separated by means of a screw, lever, or the like, used to hold an object firmly while work is being done on it. |
| 2. | to hold, press, or squeeze with or as with a vise. |
| vice 1 (vīs) n.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vitium.] |
| vice 2 (vīs) n. & v. Variant of vise. |
| vise also vice (vīs) n. A clamping device, usually consisting of two jaws closed or opened by a screw or lever, used in carpentry or metalworking to hold a piece in position. tr.v. vised also viced, vis·ing also vic·ing, vis·es also vic·es To hold or compress in or as if in a vise. [Middle English vis, screwlike device, from Old French, screw, from Latin vītis, vine (from its spiral wrappings); see wei- in Indo-European roots.] |