Obs. Also 5 vyce, 6 vyse. [Aphetic f. DEVICE.] Design, figure, device.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 1539 (D.). A vesture of vyce of vyolet flourez.
1509. Hawes, Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.), 180. On the fourth head, on the helmet crest There was a stremer ryght white,… Wheron was written with vyse of the best, My name is Variaunce.
c. 1650. Sir Lambewell, 116, in Furniv., Percy Folio, I. 148. In that pauillion was a bed of price that was couered ore with goodlie vice.
