Word Meanings - VAULTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.

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• ARCHDUKE
  A prince of the imperial family of Austria. Note: Formerly this title was assumed by the rulers of Lorraine, Brabant, Austria, etc. It is now appropriated to the descendants of the imperial family of Austria through the make line, all such male
• ARCHIVIST
  A keeper of archives or records.
• CONCAVED
  Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.
• ARCHETYPE
  The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted. (more info) 1. The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed. The House of Commons, the archetype of all the representative assemblies which
• ARCHONTATE
  An archon's term of office. Gibbon.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• CONCAVE
  1. 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. 2. Hollow; void
• ARCHIL
  1. A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.
• ARCHICAL
  Chief; primary; primordial. Cudworth.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• ARCH STONE
  A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.
• ARCHWAY
  A way or passage under an arch.
• ARCHAIST
  1. Am antiquary. 2. One who uses archaisms.
• ARCHITECTURAL
  Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly, adv.
• ARCHTRAITOR
  A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.
• ARCHENTERON
  The primitive enteron or undifferentiated digestive sac of a gastrula or other embryo. See Illust. under Invagination.
• ARCHERY
  1. The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows. 2. Archers, or bowmen, collectively. Let all our archery fall off In wings of shot a-both sides of the van. Webster .
• ARCHITRAVED
  Furnished with an architrave. Cowper.
• ARCHAIZE
  To make appear archaic or antique. Mahaffy.
• NOMARCH
  The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
• MARCHER
  One who marches.
• MONARCHIAN
  One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian.
• OLIGARCHIST
  An advocate or supporter of oligarchy.
• THEARCHY
  Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.
• TOPARCH
  The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.
• OLIGARCHAL
  Oligarchic. Glover.
• IRENARCH
  An officer in the Greek empire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace.
• POLEMARCH
  In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.
• STARCHER
  One who starches.
• GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
  British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.