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Not prejudiced; free from undue bias or prepossession; not preoccupied by opinion; impartial; as, an unprejudiced mind; an unprejudiced judge.

Not priced; being without a fixed or certain value; also, priceless. "Amethyst unpriced." Neale (Rhythm of St. Bernard).

Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence. [Obs.] Massinger.

To sluice; to open the sluice or sluices of; to let flow; to discharge. Dryden.

to come out of concealment. [Obs.] Massinger.

Chicken pox.

See Varix.

The act or practice of poisoning. [Obs.]

The sour juice of crab apples, of green or unripe grapes, apples, etc.; also, an acid liquor made from such juice.

The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.

More or less extensive patches of subcutaneous extravasation of blood.

A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse. Withouten vice of syllable or letter. Chaucer. Mark the vice of the procedure. Sir W. Hamilton.

Of or pertaining to a viceroy or viceroyalty. Macaulay.

Vicious; corrupt. [Obs.] Shak.

The office of a vicegerent. South.

An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar. Bacon. The symbol and vicegerent of the Deity. C. A. Young.

A smith who works at the vice instead of at the anvil.

Of or pertaining to twenty; consisting of twenty.

Happening once in twenty years; as, a vicennial celebration.

les in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.