vaulted

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
vaulted
    adj 1: having a hemispherical vault or dome [syn: {domed},
           {vaulted}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vault \Vault\ (v[add]lt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vaulted}; p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Vaulting}.] [OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F.
   vo[^u]ter. See {Vault} an arch.]
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   1. To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give
      the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, to vault a roof; to
      vault a passage to a court.
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            The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   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.
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            I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures.
                                                  --Webster
                                                  (1623).
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vaulted \Vault"ed\, a.
   1. Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.
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   2. Covered with an arch, or vault.
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   3. (Bot.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip
      of many ringent flowers.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "vaulted":
      arched, arciform, arclike, arcual, bandy, bowed, bowlike, concave,
      convex, embowed, gibbose, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, humpy,
      hunched, hunchy, oxbow

    

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