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A vaulting or arching over. [R.]

A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

A vault under altar of a Greek church.

A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.

The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

A temporary structure upon which the materials of a vault or arch are supported in position util the work becomes self-supporting.

se, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptace of filth. [Written also sesspool.]

Containing the bodies of the dead. "Charnel vaults." Milton. Charnel house, a tomb, vault, cemetery, or other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.

A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.

To arch over; to vault. Of the upper beak an inch and a half consisteth of one concamerated bone. Grew.

An arch or vault.

Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.

al form. Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milton.

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. Fairholt.

d ceiling, a ceiling, the part of which next the wail is constructed in a cove. -- Coved vault, a vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.

The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster. Knight.

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. Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley. My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. T…

ccording to any law, but so as to be constantly parallel to a given line. -- Cylindrical vault. (Arch.) See under Vault, n.

Somewhat dank. -- Dank"ish*ness, n. In a dark and dankish vault at home. Shak.

a running high-jump, a 400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole vaulting, throwing the javelin, and a 1500-meter run.