Definition of vice

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Vice (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..

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Monition :: Monition (n.) Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.
Press :: Press (n.) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy..
Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as, to purchase a cannon..
Extractor :: Extractor (n.) A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.
Chaplain :: Chaplain (n.) A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service..
Unearned :: Unearned (a.) Not earned; not gained by labor or service.
Entertainment :: Entertainment (n.) Admission into service; service.
Buckle :: Buckle (n.) A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue..
Break :: Break (v. t.) A device for checking motion, or for measuring friction. See Brake, n. 9 & 10..
Sail :: Sail (n.) An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water.
Bill Holder :: Bill holder () A device by means of which bills, etc., are held..
Hydrotrope :: Hydrotrope (n.) A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a pulsometer.
Mufti :: Mufti (n.) Citizen's dress when worn by a naval or military officer; -- a term derived from the British service in India.
Epistoler :: Epistoler (n.) One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.
Champerty :: Champerty (n.) The prosecution or defense of a suit, whether by furnishing money or personal services, by one who has no legitimate concern therein, in consideration of an agreement that he shall receive, in the event of success, a share of the matter in suit; maintenance with the addition of an agreement to divide the thing in suit. See Maintenance..
Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice..
Jube :: "Jube (n.) gallery above such a screen, from which certain parts of the service were formerly read..
Unloader :: Unloader (n.) One who, or that which, unloads; a device for unloading, as hay from a wagon..
Exterminate :: Exterminate (v. t.) To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice..
Claptrap :: Claptrap (n.) A trick or device to gain applause; humbug.
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