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Word Meanings - FORMERET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • AGAINST
    1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
  • CEIL
    heaven, vault, arch, covering; cf. Gr. 1. To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room. The greater house he ceiled with fir tree. 2 Chron. iii. 5 2. To line or finish a surface, as of a wall,
  • CEILING
    The inner planking of a vessel. Camp ceiling. See under Camp. -- Ceiling boards, Thin narrow boards used to ceil with. (more info) The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.
  • 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.
  • BIVAULTED
    Having two vaults or arches.

 

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