vault (2)

i. & t. [Fr. volter.] [VAULT (2), s.] A. Intransitive: 1. To leap, to bound, to spring, especially with something to rest the hands on. "Nestor had failed the fall of Troy to see, But, leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree." Dryden: Ovid; Metamorphoses viii. 134. 2. To exhibit equestrian or other feats of tumbling or leaping. 3. In the manége, to curvet. B. Trans.: To leap or spring over, by means of a pole or springboard, or by resting the hand or hands on. *vâult-age (age as Ig), s. [Eng. vault (1), s.; -age.] Vaulted work; an arched cellar; a vaulted room. "He'll call you to so hot an answer for it, That caves and womby vaultages of France Shall chide your trespa ." Shakesp.: Henry V., ii. 4. vâult-ěd, *vaut-ed, a. [Eng. vault; -ed.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Formed with a vault or arch; arched, concave. "With clangor rings the field, resounds the vaulted sky." Dryden: Palamon and Arcíte , iii. 582. 2. Covered with a vault or arched roof. 3. Provided with vaults or subterranean pa ages. "The said citie of Alexandria being all vauted underneath for provision of fresh water." - Hackluyt: Voyages, ii. 281. II. Botany : Arched, like the roof of the mouth. Used of various ringent corollas. vâult-er, s. [Eng. vault (2), v.; -er.] One who vaults, leaps, or tumbles; a leaper. "Do run away with the vaulter , or the French man that walks upon ropes." - Ben Jonson: Silent Woman, ii. 1. vâult-Ing, s. [Eng. vault (1), s.; -ing .] 4383 intersecting each other, meeting in a bo in the center, and frequently springing from corbels, brackets, . vaulting-shaft, vaulting-pillar, s. Arch.: A pillar sometimes rising from the floor to the spring of the vault of a roof; more frequently, a short pillar attached to the wall rising from a corbel, and from the top of which the ribs of the vault spring. The pillars between the triforium windows of Gothic churches rising to and supporting the vaulting are examples. Vectian vâunt'-ing, pr. par ., a. & s. [VAUNT, v .] A. As pr . par.: (See the verb.) B. As adj .: Boastful, bragging, braggart. C. As subst.: Boasting, bravado, bragging. "Make your vaunting true." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, iv. 3. vâunt-Ing-ly, adv . [Eng. vaunting ; -ly.] In a vaunting or boastful manner; boastfully. "Vauntingly thou spakest it." Shakesp.: Richard II ., iv. vau que line, vauquelinite (as võk-lin, vōk'chromium; suff. -ite ( Min .).] vâult-ing, pr . par ., a. & s. [VAULT (2), v.] A. & B. As pr . par. & particip. adj .: (See the lin-ite), s. [After M. Vauquelin, the discoverer of verb.) C. As subst.: The art or practice of a vaulter.