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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.

uthority, 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.

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

The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy.

Viceroyalty.

Fault; defect; coarseness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. We may give advice, but we can not give conduct. Franklin.

The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.

Service due from a bordar; bordage.

control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).

n of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.

ft; a fissure; a rent. The mouse, Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, Or from the crevice peered about. Tennyson.

Having a crevice or crevices; as, a creviced structure for storing ears of corn. Trickling through the creviced rock. J. Cunningham.

vention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice. His device in against Babylon, to destroy it. Jer. li. 11. Their recent device of demanding benevolences. Hallam. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job v. 12.