Word Meanings - ENVAULT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.

Related words: (words related to ENVAULT)

• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• SWIFTER
  A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
• VAULT
  An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray. 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
• INCLOSE
  Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case,
• ENTOMBMENT
  The act of entombing or burying, or state of being entombed; burial. Barrow.
• SWIFTLY
  In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly. Wyclif.
• ENTOMB
  To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume. Hooker. (more info) Etym:
• SWIFTFOOT
  Nimble; fleet. Mir. for Mag.
• SWIFT
  to swapan to sweep, swipu a whip; cf. swifan to move quickly, to 1. Moving a great distance in a short time; moving with celerity or velocity; fleet; rapid; quick; speedy; prompt. My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
• VAULTER
  One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler. B. Jonson.
• VAULTED
  Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers. (more info) 1. Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof. 2. Covered with an arch, or vault.
• VAULTAGE
  Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar. Shak.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• CROSS-VAULTING
  Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
• DISENTOMB
  To take out from a tomb; a disinter.
• BIVAULTED
  Having two vaults or arches.
• DISINCLOSE
  To free from being inclosed.