ethics, is ordinarily defined an elective habit, denoting either an excess or defect from the just medium wherein virtue is placed.

smithery and other arts converging in metals, a machine or instrument serving to hold fast any thing they are at work upon, whether it is to be beaten, filed, or rivetted.

Vice is also used in the composition of divers words to denote the relation of something that comes instead or in the place of another; as vice-admiral, vice-chancellor, &c. are officers who take place in the absence of admirals, &c.