[f. VICE sb.2]
† 1. trans. To fix on with a screw. Obs.–1
1542. in Archæol. Jrnl., XVIII. 144. Item oone Cuppe of glasse with a cover, the fote being of silver and gilt and viced on.
2. To force, strain or press hard as by the use of a vice; to fix, jam or squeeze tightly.
In early use only in highly figurative context.
1602. Marston, Antonio’s Rev., II. ii. D j. I see false suspect Is vicde; wrung hardly in a vertuous heart.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., I. ii. 416. He sweares, As he had seen’t, or beene an Instrument To vice you to’t, that you haue toucht his Queene Forbiddenly.
1637. N. Whiting, Albino & Bellama, 12. Who viceth honour, lyes.
1806. J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life, VI. iv. You find yourself suddenly viced in, from the shoulder to the hip.
1849. De Quincey, in Blackw. Mag., LXVI. 748. The coachman’s hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh. Ibid. (a. 1859), Aclius Lamia, Wks. X. 306. The glory may envelop one in a voluminous robe,… or may pinch and vice one’s arms into that succinct garment [a spencer].
3. intr. To employ or apply a vice. rare–1.
1612. Sturtevant, Metallica (1854), 99. Pressing or impressioning of things is performed … secondely by screwing or viceing.
Hence Vicing vbl. sb.
1648. Hexham, II. Een vijsinge, a Vicing, or a Screwing.
