The Meaning of vice

• (n.) A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
• (n.) A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
• (n.) A gripe or grasp.
• (v. t.) To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
• (prep.) In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
• (prep.) Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.

Synonyms

frailty

Homophones

vise

Rhymes

advice , allspice , berneice , bice , brice , bryce , buysse , concise , deiss , device , devise , deweiss , dice , dise , dyce , edelweiss , entice , excise , feis , fleiss , fordyce , geise , gneiss , grice , guice , heise , heiss , hice , ice , imprecise , kies , kleiss , kreiss , lice , meiss , mice , midprice , misprice , nice , nyce , overprice , paradise , precise , preiss , price , pryce , reiss , reprice , rice , sacrifice , slice , spice , splice , stice , suffice , theiss , thrice , tice , trice , twice , tyce , underprice , vise , weis , weiss , weisse , wice , wrice , zeiss