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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Discard :: Discard (v. t.) To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away..
Instrumental :: Instrumental (a.) Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business..
Device :: Device (n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
Hydrotrope :: Hydrotrope (n.) A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a pulsometer.
Prestation :: Prestation (n.) A payment of money; a toll or duty; also, the rendering of a service..
Mercenary :: Mercenary (n.) One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service..
Bockland :: Bockland (n.) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds..
Collar :: Collar (n.) An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order..
Livery :: Livery (n.) The uniform clothing issued by feudal superiors to their retainers and serving as a badge when in military service.
Viceroy :: Viceroy (prep.) The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India..
Mot :: Mot (n.) A word; hence, a motto; a device..
Bondman :: Bondman (n.) A man slave, or one bound to service without wages..
Repayable :: Repayable (a.) Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind..
Stand :: Stand (n.) To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.
Crack :: Crack (n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass..
Follow :: Follow (v. t.) To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice..
Guidage :: Guidage (n.) The reward given to a guide for services.
Impress :: Impress (n.) A device. See Impresa.
Trierarch :: Trierarch (n.) At Athens, one who (singly, or jointly with other citizens) had to fit out a trireme for the public service..
Trunkwork :: Trunkwork (n.) Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem.
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