Definitions for the word "vice" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A gripe or grasp.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. prep.
In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
1 immoral conduct. 2 form of this (the vice of gluttony). 3 weakness; indulgence (brandy is my one vice). [latin vitium]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
11. n.
(us vise) clamp with two jaws holding an object so as to leave the hands free to work on it. [vis screw, from latin vitis vine]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
12. prep.
In the place of; succeeding. [latin, ablative of (vix) vicis change]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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