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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..

Catch-basin :: Catch-basin (n.) A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to catch bulky matters which would not pass readily through the sewer..

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..

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line..

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

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

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

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

Corona :: Corona (n.) A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis..

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

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

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..

Boss :: Boss (n.) A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations..

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

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

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

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

Vaut :: Vaut (n.) A vault; a leap.

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..

Cell :: Cell (n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

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