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Severy :: Severy (n.) A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling.

Rib :: Rib (n.) In Gothic vaulting, one of the primary members of the vault. These are strong arches, meeting and crossing one another, dividing the whole space into triangles, which are then filled by vaulted construction of lighter material. Hence, an imitation of one of these in wood, plaster, or the like..

Ogive :: Ogive (n.) The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.

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

Fornix :: Fornix (n.) An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva..

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Vault :: Vault (n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like..

Envault :: Envault (v. t.) To inclose in a vault; to entomb.

Pendentive :: Pendentive (n.) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel..

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..

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

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..

Drift :: Drift (n.) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.

Springer :: Springer (n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting..

Crypt :: Crypt (n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory..

Vaulting :: Vaulting (n.) Act of one who vaults or leaps.

Vaulter :: Vaulter (n.) One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler.

Cross-vaulting :: Cross-vaulting (n.) Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.

Sky :: Sky (n.) The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural..

Cameration :: Cameration (n.) A vaulting or arching over.

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