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A half vault; one of the seven artificial motions of a horse, in which he raises his fore legs in a particular manner.

Expense; profusion; outlay. [Obs.] It was a vault built for great dispense. Spenser.

The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments. [R.] Knight.

The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.

See Scallop, n., 1. -- Fan tracery (Arch.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan vaulting. -- Fan vaulting (Arch.), an elaborate system of vaulting, in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan, as in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster Abbey. It is peculiar to English Gothic. -- Fan wheel, the w…

To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. Shak.

ng, in Old English, the reason of anything. And for of long that way had walkéd none, The vault was hid with plants and bushes hoar. Fairfax. And Heaven defend your good souls, that you think I will your serious and great business scant, For she with me. Shak.

One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.

Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.

A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell.

The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults, growing more obtuse as it approaches the summit.

Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault.

To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow. "Imbowed windows." Bacon.

act of imbowing; an arch; a vault. Bacon.

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. Bacon. Leap in with me into this angry flood. Shak.

ons lurk within the lee. Young. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of. Shak.

In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another.

soners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.

of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.