Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vaulted"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Vault \Vault\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vaulted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Vaulting}.] [OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F. vo[^u]ter.
See {Vault} an arch.]
1. To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give
the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to
vault a passage to a court.

The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.
--Sir W.
Scott.

2. [See {Vault}, v. i.] To leap over; esp., to leap over by
aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.

I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures.
--Webster
(1623).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Vaulted \Vault"ed\, a.
1. Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.

2. Covered with an arch, or vault.

3. (Bot.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip
of many ringent flowers.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

vaulted
adj : having a hemispherical vault or dome [syn: {domed}]


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