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Vault :: Vault (n.) A leap or bound.

Vault :: Vault (v. t.) To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court..

Vault :: Vault (n.) To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.

Welkin :: Welkin (n.) The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky.

Alveated :: Alveated (a.) Formed or vaulted like a beehive.

Groin :: Groin (n.) The surface formed by two such vaults.

Imbow :: Imbow (v. t.) To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow.

Demivolt :: Demivolt (n.) A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner..

Camerate :: Camerate (v. i.) To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.

Galea :: Galea (n.) A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell..

Safe :: Safe (n.) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like..

Vaulted :: Vaulted (a.) Covered with an arch, or vault..

Vaulting :: Vaulting (n.) The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.

Scaphocephaly :: Scaphocephaly (n.) A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped..

Concave :: Concave (a.) Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky..

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

Vault :: Vault (n.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy..

Cross-springer :: Cross-springer (n.) One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Illustr. of Groined vault.].

Abutment :: Abutment (n.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut..

Concameration :: Concameration (n.) An arch or vault.

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