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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



... cannot go through. If you choose to take up the matter with my superior officer, you will find the Kaserne in the main street near the mosque. I shall pass you only upon his vise. That is final. You will please turn your car and return ...
— The Secret Witness • George Gibbs

... ice began to move, down from the north and up from the south. Slowly, inexorably, the jaws of the great vise closed, till all that was left of the wide empire of man was a narrow belt about the equator. Everywhere else was a vast tumbled waste of cold and glaring whiteness, a frozen desert. In the narrow habitable belt were compacted the teeming ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various

... forward, and the madness fired his blood. Half stupefied, she yielded to his embrace, her lips rested upon his, her frightened eyes were half closed. His arms held her like a vise, he could feel her heart throbbing madly against his. How long they remained like it he never knew—who can measure the hours spent in Paradise! She flung him from her at last, taking him by surprise with a sudden burst of energy, and before he ...
— The Avenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... such circumstances, naturally had the effect of very quickly restoring his faculties to their normal condition, but on trying to turn his head, he found it held as firmly as in a vise, by the hands which had been quickly removed from his eyes, while ...
— The Award of Justice - Told in the Rockies • A. Maynard Barbour

... brain cavity wider and nail skull at any desired angle upon top of neck board. Screw upon back of neck base-board a one by three inch piece with free end dropping a few inches below bottom of base-board so that head may be handily set in a vise. This will allow you to get all around it and the vise will hold it at any angle, making sewing, ...
— Taxidermy • Leon Luther Pray


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