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Pendentive :: Pendentive (n.) The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt..

Leap :: Leap (v. i.) To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse..

Triforium :: Triforium (n.) The gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows..

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..

Acrobatism :: Acrobatism (n.) Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting.

Echometry :: Echometry (n.) The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.

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

Vaulting :: Vaulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Vaul.

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..

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

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