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Vise   /vaɪs/   Listen
noun
Vice  n.  
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. (Obs.)


Vise  n.  (Written also vice)  An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.


Vise  n.  A document or an indorsement made on a passport by the proper authorities of certain countries, denoting that the passport has been examined, and that the person who bears it is permitted to proceed on her journey. Same as visa; an older spelling now used less frequently than visa.


verb
Vise  v. t.  (past & past part. viséed; pres. part. viséing)  To examine and indorse, as a passport; to visa.





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"Vise" Quotes from Famous Books



... broke on Henley. He whistled softly, and his brawny hand clutched his knee like a vise as ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben
... overcoat hung in the room. In a moment they were on; in another he was following the very respectable young woman down-stairs; in a third he was scrambling after her into the carriage; in a fourth they were rattling wildly over the wet, stony streets; in a fifth the reverend gentleman was grasped in a vise-like grip, and a voice close to his ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... was tearing away the entire front of its breast, which was held in the vise-like grip of the powerful jaws. Back and forth upon the floor they rolled, neither one emitting a sound of fear or pain. Presently I saw the great eyes of my beast bulging completely from their sockets and blood flowing from its nostrils. That he was weakening perceptibly was evident, but so also ...
— A Princess of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... vonce a grade lady," he said, coming up closer to them, "who vas so good, and so lofly, and so sveet, that no vone who saw her could help lofing her; and she vas glad to help ev'y vone, and gif to ev'y vone, and she vas so rich and vise dat she could help and ...
— The Old Gray Homestead • Frances Parkinson Keyes
... then! Give us yer hand; there!" with a grip like a vise. "Bill Cronk never went back on a man he took to. I tell yer what, stranger," said he, becoming confidential, "when I saw yer glowering and blinking here in the corner as if yer was listening to ...
— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe


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