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Vault :: Vault (n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.

Imbowment :: Imbowment (n.) act of imbowing; an arch; a vault.

Roof :: Roof (n.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering..

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

Bivaulted :: Bivaulted (a.) Having two vaults or arches.

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..

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

Groined :: Groined (a.) Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault..

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

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

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

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..

Cesspool :: Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth..

Vault :: Vault (n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.

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

Vaulted :: Vaulted (a.) Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof..

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

Fornicated :: Fornicated (a.) Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

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

Bay :: Bay (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers..

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