viced

Adjective

viced (comparative more viced, superlative most viced)

1. (obsolete) vicious; corrupt
   • Jove Will o'er some high-viced city hang his poison In the sick airc. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
2. Held clamped by a vice or something with a similar squeezing action.
   • There was a board on a tree, bearing a merchant's name above the legend Jefferson 4 mi, drawing up and then past, yet with no semblance of motion, and he moved his feet slightly and braced his inside elbow for the coming jerk and gathered himself feet foremost out of the moving surrey, snapping his...1940, William Faulkner, The Hamlet
   • Ewan works a solid half-hour and the viced scroll looks barely scratched.2010, Craig Silvey, Rhubarb, page 21
3. Maintaining a vice-like grip.
   • After a while Farino fell and Lacy with him; but the viced fingers never relaxed.1933, Theodore A. Tinsley, Scarlet Ace: Candidate for Death
   • She nodded every so often, glanced at Henry, tightened her viced hand around Ernest's, and then listened some more.2016, P. C Dettmann, Ernest Zevon