Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
vise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Coopering) A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.
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Examples
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And they seyn also, that Jesu Crist spak als sone as he was born; and that he was an holy prophete and a trewe, in woord and dede, and meke and pytous and rightefulle and with outen ony vyce.
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And they seyn also, that Jesu Crist spak als sone as he was born; and that he was an holy prophete and a trewe, in woord and dede, and meke and pytous and rightefulle and with outen ony vyce.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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¶ And wha {n} shot was done vyce cam forth at last.
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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¶ Tyll vyce with frewyll so sore gan hy {m} oppresse.
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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¶ She sayd euer syth Vertu of vyce wan {the} pryse.
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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¶ For he sayd he knew well {that} vyce was ful nye.
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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¶ For he had so purueyde {that} vyce sholde haue {the} day
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¶ Brought thyd {er} vyce as he co {m} mau {n} ded was
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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_An Enterlude called Lusty Juuentus, lyuely describing the frailtie of youth: of natur prone to vyce: by grace and good counsayll traynable to vertue.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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[Sidenote 1: The line is over the _th_.] ffull [e] many a ma_n_ _th_at vyce hathe myscheved;
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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