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rched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray.

Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar. [Obs.] Shak.

Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.

One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler. B. Jonson.

The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction.

Arched; concave. [Obs.] "The vaulty heaven." Shak.

Having two vaults or arches.

Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.

To inclose in a vault; to entomb. [R.] Swift.

One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.

Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting.

Formed or vaulted like a beehive.

The blue vault above; the unclouded sky. Not like those steps On heaven's azure. Milton.

walls, or between the inner and outer faces of a wall, or upon the haunches of an arch or vault. -- Back pressure. (Steam Engine) See under Pressure. -- Back rest, a guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work, to steady it in turning. -- Back slang, a kind of slang in which ever…

rgan, an instrument for producing music by the action of a revolving cylinder. -- Barrel vault. See under Vault.

, 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.

y snatcher, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist. -- Body snatching (Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection.

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

The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. "To give a public burial." Shak. Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air- tight, for the preserv…

To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.