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

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.

Vaut :: Vaut (v. i.) To vault; to leap.

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

Supercelestial :: Supercelestial (a.) Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven..

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..

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..

Azure :: Azure (n.) The blue vault above; the unclouded sky.

Vault :: Vault (n.) An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar..

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..

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

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

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

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..

Vaulted :: Vaulted (imp. & p. p.) of Vaul.

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

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

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..

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

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.].

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