vaudevillist (vodvilist)

[ Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack. Shak ., Lear, v. 3. 259. A very lofty vault . is made over his [Antenor's] mon- ument. Coryat, Crudities, I. 154. Nor bird would sing, nor lamb would bleat, Nor any cloud would cro the vault . served both externally and internally, but the general pro- portions of the building require the dome to be of greater vaults, every two of which form a groin at the inter sec- tion. If the crowns of the intersecting vaults are on the same level, all the groins will meet in a common point, which is called the apex or summit, and in ribbed vault- ing is usually decorated with a bo . See cuts under crypt groin .-Lierne vault. See lierne. - Palatal or pal a- tine vault, the roof of the mouth. See cut under palate . -Rampant vault. See def. 2. - Rear vault. See rear3 . - Reins of a vault. See reins . - Vault of the cranium, the calvaria or skullcap; that part of a skull above the orbits, auditory canals, and superior curved line of the occipital bone. vault1 (vâlt), v. t. [ vouten , vouter ; from the noun.] 1. To form with a vault or arched roof; give the shape or character of an arch or a vault to; arch: as, to vault a pa age to a court. Some few stony bridges I saw also pretily vaulted with an arch or two. Coryat, Crudities, I. 88. 2. To cover with or as with an arch or vault. Fiery darts in flaming volleys flew, And flying vaulted either host with fire. vault2 (vâlt), n. [ volte , volta , a turn, leap, vault, volūta (> * voluta , > * volta ), fem. of volutus , pp. of volvere , turn: see volve . Cf. vault1.] A leap or spring. Especially - (a) A leap made by means of a pole, or by resting the hand or hands on something. (b) The leap of a horse; a curvet. vault2 (vâlt), v. [Early mod. E. also vaute ; spring, especially by having something to rest the hands on, as in mounting a horse or clear- ing a fence. IMG:content-1725.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1726.png:[graphic] vaulter (vâl'ter), n. [ vault2 + -er1.] One who or that which vaults; a leaper; a tumbler; a dancer. The most celebrated Master, Mr. Simpson the famous Vaulter . Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of [Queen Anne, I. 255. Green little vaulter in the sunny gra . Leigh Hunt , To the Gra hopper and the Cricket. vaulting1 (vâl'ting), n. [Verbal n. of vault1 , v.] In arch ., vaulted work; vaults collectively. IMG:content-1727.png:[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][merged small] vaulting2 (val'ting), n. [Verbal n. of vault ", v.] The art or practice of a vaulter. Vaulting on the High Rope, and Tumbling on the Stage. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen [Anne, I. 251. Stilt- vaulting is dying out. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, III. 151 Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., viii. 134. Vaults every warrior to his steed. Shak., T. of A., ii. 2. 169. They have vaults or cellars under most of their houses. Coryat, Crudities, I. 59. (d) A privy. 4. In an at . , a part forming a dome-like roof to a cavity.- Annular vault. See annular . - Back of a vault. See back of an arch , under back1.- Counter- vault, an inverted vault; a vault of which the crown is constructed downward, to resist pre ure from below. - Double vault, in arch ., a superposition of two complete vaults, built one over the other with such an interval be- tween as may be nece ary to conform to the requirements of proportion of the interior and the exterior: a device em- ployed in the construction of a dome or domical roof when it is desired that the appearance of a dome should be pre- medieval arch ., the capital of a shaft, usually an engaged shaft, which receives a rib of a vault. See vaulting -shaft. vaulting-horse (val'ting-hôrs), n . A wooden horse in a gymnasium for practice in vaulting. vaulting-houset (vâl'ting-hous), n. A brothel. Mas singer , Unnatural Unnatural Co Combat, iv. 2. [Low.] vaulting-pillar (val'ting-pil är), n. Same as vaulting-shaft. vaulting-shaft (val'ting-shaft), n . In arch ., a shaft, almost invariably engaged, rising from a floor or from the capi- tal of a pier below, to receive the spring of a rib of a roof-vault; also, a shorter shaft engaged in the wall and and rising from a cor- bel, from the top of which shaft the rib of the vault springs. The second form is lacking in architectural logic and pro- priety, which demand that if the rib is not frankly ac- A present deity, they shout around; knowledged to spring from A present deity, the vaulted roofs rebound. the wall, and be supported Dryden , Alexander's Feast, 1. 36. by it, its support should be Vauted all within, like to the Skye In which the Gods doe dwell eternally. Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 43. 2. Covered with an arch or vault. Undre theise Stages ben Stables wel y vowted for the Emperours Hors; and alle the Pileres ben of Mar belle. Mandeville , Travels, p. 17. Vaulting-shaft, from the nave of Notre Dame, Paris. le en the weight of the upper parts of large ma es of masonry.