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Vise   /vaɪs/   Listen
noun
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



... him. He stifled under the sheets, his body smarted and tingled as though stung by swarms of insects. These symptoms were augmented by a dull pain in his jaws and a throbbing in his temples which seemed to be gripped in a vise. ...
— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... next charge Brion changed tactics. He leaped inside the thrust, clutching for the knife arm. A burning slice of pain cut across his arm, then his fingers clutched the tendoned wrist. They clamped down hard, grinding shut, compressing with the tightening intensity of a closing vise. ...
— Planet of the Damned • Harry Harrison
... while a blow from the clenched fist of his right hand sent the cowardly villain reeling back among the trees. Then like a tiger Dane was upon him, his fingers clutching his throat as he pinned him to the ground. The fallen man fought and struggled desperately to tear away that fearful vise-like grip, but all in vain. At length his striving ceased, and his body relaxed. Then Dane unloosened his hold, and looked ...
— The King's Arrow - A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists • H. A. Cody
... telescoped and hung on a frame above the window. The burglar steps in, the bag is released, drops over him, these circular steel ribs contract and clutch his arms like a vise—and there you are! How's that for an ...
— Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures • Edgar Franklin
... as the door opened and Mrs. Stickles entered. She always proved the dominating factor wherever she went, and what her size could not accomplish was well supplied by her marvellous tongue. The Bishop winced as she seized his hand in a vise-like grip. ...
— The Fourth Watch • H. A. Cody


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