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Look up: Vice

  1. vice
    [n] - a specific form of evildoing
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Vice
    spiral stair
    Found on http://www.castlexplorer.co.uk/glossary.

  3. Vice
    Vice noun [ French, from Latin vitium .] 1. A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse. « Withouten vice of syllable or letter.�...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/22

  4. Vice
    Vice noun [ See Vise .] 1. (Mech.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise . 2. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements. [ Written also vise .] 3. A gripe or grasp. [ Obsolete] Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/22

  5. Vice
    Vice transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Viced ; present participle & verbal noun Vicing .] To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. Shak. « The coachma...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/22

  6. Vice
    Vi'ce preposition [ Latin , abl. of vicis change, turn. See Vicarious .] In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/22

  7. Vice
    Vice adjective [ Confer French vice- . See Vice , preposition ] 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...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/V/22

  8. vice
    1. A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse. 'Withouten vice of syllable or letter.' (Chaucer) 'Mark the vice of the procedure.' (Sir W. Hamilton) ... 2. A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. vice
    noun a specific form of evildoing; `vice offends the moral standards of the community`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  10. Vice
    • (n.) A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements. • (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. • (n.) A defect; a fault; an error; a b...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. vice
    (from the article `Rousseau, Jean-Jacques`) ...the life of man in such a condition must have been `poor, nasty, brutish and short,` Rousseau claims that original man, while admittedly solitary, ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/20

  12. vice
    vice From Latin meaning: 'change, succession, position, place'. Used in the sense of 'one who is a deputy of or a stand-in for the person named by the combining root'.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  13. Vice
    Vice is Latin for In the place of
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/YS.H

  14. Vice
    A vice is an instrument consisting of two jaws closed by a screw and used for holding work tightly, for example when filing. Typically a vice has a screw clamp at the base for fixing the vice firmly to a work surface.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  15. vice
    • moral weakness
    • a specific form of evildoing

    Found on

  16. Vice
    A moral defect. A term used in the civil law, by which is meant a defect in a thing; an imperfection. For example, epilepsy in a slave, roaring and crib-biting in a horse, are vices. Redhibitory vices are those for which the seller will be compelled to annul a sale, and take back the thing sold. Als...
    Found on http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/u088.htm

  17. Vice
    A bench-mounted screw clamp used for holding and securing wood while it is being worked.
    Found on http://www.artmarquetry.com/glossary.htm

  18. Vice
    Abnormal behavior in the stable environment that results from confinement or improper management and can affect a horse's usefulness, dependability, and health Examples are cribbing and weaving
    Found on http://www.gaitedhorses.net/Articles/Hor

  19. Vice
    `Vice` is a practice or a behavior or habit considered immoral, depraved, and/or degrading in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a defect, an infirmity, or merely a bad habit. Synonyms for vice include fault, depravity, sin, iniquity, wickedness, and corruption. ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice

  20. Vice
    (magazine) Vice is available in 27 countries. Editions are published in Canada, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Japan, Spain, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, South Af...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice

  21. VICE
    The software program `VICE`, standing for `V`ersat`I`le `C`ommodore `E`mulator, is an emulator for Commodore`s 8-bit computers, running on Amiga, Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, Mac OS X, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS, and BeOS host machines. VICE is free software, released under the GNU General Public Licence. A...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VICE

  22. Vice
    (song) `"Vice"` is the fifth single released by English rock band Razorlight, taken from their debut album Up All Night. It followed "Golden Touch" into the UK Top 20. The lyrics feature the word "love" spelled out in letters, the outro repeating this seve...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice

  23. Vice
    (character) `Vice` is a stock character of the medieval morality plays. While the main character of these plays was representative of every human being (and usually named Mankind, Everyman, or some other generalizing of humanity at large), the other characters were representative of (and usua...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice

  24. Vice
    (film) `Vice` is a 2008 crime film released straight to DVD. It stars Michael Madsen and Daryl Hannah. `Tagline`: It`s a dirty job. Plot : An undercover drug deal goes wrong and Max (Madsen) sees the other cops involved start dropping. While trying to investigate the murders, he must d...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice



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11 February 2012

This day in history:
On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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