Word Meanings - VAULTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers. (more info) 1. Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof. 2. Covered with an arch, or vault.

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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.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• 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
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• 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.
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• 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.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• 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.
• NOMARCH
  The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• 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.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• 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.
• STARCHER
  One who starches.