Vaudois 
II. a. IVrtaining to the canton of Vuud r to 
its inhabitants. 
VaudoiS- (\<>-<\n'). n. and . [F.: see H'ol- 
ili-iisi-x.] I. n. ttnii/. iiinl />/. A member or the 
members of the religious body ^nienillv know M 
as Waldenses. See ll'iilili-iixinn. 
II. n. I'ertaining to the Viiudois or Wal- 
flenses. 
vaudoo, vaudou, vaudoux. See rooiloo. 
vault 1 (vail), n. [With inserted / (as also in 
fault), in imitation of the orig. form; early mod. 
E. vaiit, nniti; nnrti; also rout, < M Iv nnrli. 
rnutr, roirti; nurl, < < >F. i-oiitr, i-olti; Inter /,//, . 
F. vou/e (= Pr. roltn. rouln, rota = It. volta), a 
vault, arch, vaulted roof, < volt, rout, bowed, 
arched, < L. mlutnn ( > "rolfitux, > *i-oltiix), pp. 
of rolrrn; turn around, roll : see rolre, volute.] 
1. An arched roof ; a concave roof or roof-like 
covering; the canopy of heaven. 
O, you are men of stones : 
Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so 
That heaven's nmii should crack. 
Shall., Lear, v. 8. 2SB. 
A very lofty vault . . . Is made over hU(Antenor's) mon- 
ument. Coryat, Crudities, I. 154. 
Nor bird would sing, nor Iamb would bleat, 
Nor any cloud would cross the vault. 
Tennyson, Mariana in the South. 
2. In arch., a continuous arch, or an arched 
roof, so constructed that the stones, bricks, or 
other materials of which it is composed mutual- 
ly sustain themselves in their places upon their 
abutments, and that their joints radiate from 
some central point or lino (or points or lines). 
Vaults are of various kinds, cylindrical, elliptical, single, 
double, cross, diagonal, pointed, etc. When a vault of 
which the curve is an arc of a circle Is of greater height 
than half Its spun, it is said to be surmounted, and when 
of less height, surbased. A rampant vault is a vault which 
springs from planes not parallel to the horizon. One vault 
placed above or inclosing another constitutes a double 
vault. A conical vault is formed as It were upon part of 
the surface of a cone, and a spherical vault upon part of the 
surface of a sphere. A vault is simple when it is formed 
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Ki-r\c<l lithi'triiilly and Internally, but the general prn- 
poftkmi of the tin ilii in- i Mjiih , th. i l.ii n. to t>e of greater 
vaulting-tile 
The said rllif of Alexandria Is an old thing decayed or 
ruinated, . . . bring all fvt"/' </ \ n<ti-[ii4-;tt)i fi.r inonisinn 
of freih water. I -i 
4. Ill !">>.. arched like the roof of the month, as 
the upper li|> of many ringent flower*. S. In 
./.. notiilily arched or convex, as a shell, or 
i lie l>'-ak ol a hird: fornicated, 
vaulter I viil'ter). . [< rnult- + -ir 1 .] One 
who or that which vaults: alcapcr: a tumlilei ; 
a dancer. 
The most celebrated Muter, Mr. .sim|ni,n thr famous 
Tauter. ifnot.-d In Athlmi* S,cinl Lift- In Helen of 
llfueen Anne, I. Iff,. 
Green little raiiltrr In the sunny gnu*. 
Ifiyh Hunt, To the Grasshopper and the Cricket. 
vaulting 1 (viil'tint?), >i. [Verbal n. of IV/M//I, 
P.] In arch., vaulted work; vaults collectively. 
Double Vault. Section of dome of St. Peter 1 !, Rome. 
I, barrel-vault: 2. intersecting vault; 3, domed vault: 4. stilted 
vault. 
upon the surface of some regular solid, around one axis, 
and compound when compounded of two or more simple 
vaults or parts of such vaults. (Compare Koman and 
medieval architecture, under Koman and medieval.) A 
tfroined vault is a compound vault formed by the Inter- 
section of two or more vaults crossing each other. See 
' ' , groined, and cuts under aisle, crypt, and naoe. 
The Citie standeth vpon great arches or vawtet, like 
vnto Churches. Hakluut's Voyages, II. '284. 
3. An arched apartment or compartment; also, 
a chamber or compartment, even if not arched 
or vaulted; especially, a subterranean cham- 
ber used for certain specific purposes, (a) A 
place of interment. 
Ther is a Vourt undre the Chlrche, where that Orlstene 
men duellen also ; and thef han many gode Vynes. 
Matuiemlle, Travels, p. 124. 
The deep, damp mult, the darkness, and the worm. 
Young, Night Thoughts, iv. 11. 
(6) A place nf confinement ; a prison. 
There are certaine vauts or dungeons, which goe downe 
verie decpe vnder those I'yrainides. 
HoMuyti Voyages, II. 281. 
(e) A place for storing articles; a cellar: as, wine-mtulfx; 
the name Is hence frequently given, in the plural, to a 
place where beer and wine are sold, whether subterranean 
or not. 
When our faults have wept 
With drunken spilth of wine. 
Shot., T. of A., II. 2.169. 
They have i;i//li* or cellars under most of their houses. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 59. 
(d) A privy. 
4. In mint., a part forming a dome-like roof to 
a cavity Annular vault. See annular. Back of 
a vault. Soc back of an arch, under ''.'. i . Counter- 
vault, an inverted vault : a vault of which the crown is 
constructed downward, to resist pressure 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 necessary to conform to the requirements 
of proportion of the interior and the exterior : a device em- 
Rloyed in the construction of a dome or domical roof when 
', is desired that the appearance of a dome should be pre- 
exterlor altitude than would be harmonious for the Inte- 
rior Groined vault, as distinguished from barrel- or 
cradle-pault, a vault formed by two or more intersecting 
vaulu, every two of which form a groin at the Intersec- 
tion. If the crowns of the Intersecting vaulta 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 boss. See cuts under crypt 
audf/rotn. Lierne vault. see/iVm/-. Palatal or pala- 
tine vault, the roof of the mouth. See cut under jtalate. 
Rampant vault. Seedef. 2. Rear vault See rear*. 
Reins of a vault. See rein*. Vault of the cranium, 
the calvarla or skullcap ; that part of a skull above the 
orbits, auditory canals, and superior curved line of the 
occipital bone. 
vault 1 (valt), v. t. [< ME. vouten, < OF. router; 
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 run It a passage 
to a court. 
Some few stony biidges 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. 
Milton, P. L., vl. 214. 
vault 2 (valt), . f< F. rolte, < It. volta, a turn, 
leap, vault, < L. valuta (> 'valuta, > * volta), fern, 
of volutun, pp. of volvere, turn: see voice. Cf. 
vault 1 .] A leap or spring. Especially (a) A leap 
made by means of a pole, or by resting the hand or hands 
on something. (t>) The leap of a horse ; a curvet. 
vault 2 (valt), f. [Early mod. E. also vaute; < 
vaulfi, .] I. intrans. 1. To leap; bound; 
spring, especially by having something to rest 
the hands on, as in mounting a horse or clear- 
ing a fence. 
Vniiltinn ambition, which o'erleaps Itself. 
Shak., Macbeth, i. 7. 27. 
Leaning on his lance, he vaulted on a tree. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., viil. 184. 
Vault* every warrior to his steed. 
Scott, Cadyow Castle. 
2. To exhibit equestrian or other feats of tum- 
bling or leaping. 
For he could play, and daunce, and eaute, and spring. 
Spfiaer, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 683. 
3. In the maiifge, to curvet. =8yn. Leap, Jump, 
etc. SeeuWpi. 
II. Iran,*. To leap over; especially, to leap 
over by aid of the hands or a pole : as, to vault 
a fence. 
vaultaget (val'taj), M. [< vault 1 + -ftge.] Vault- 
ed work; an arched cellar; a vaulted room. 
Womby wultages of France. Shot., Hen. V., ii. 4. 124. 
D. ffoic. What Is this multaffe for, Is fashlon'd here? 
Oresh. Stowage for merchanta ware, and strangers goods. 
Heyvood, If you Know not me (Works, 1874, I. 290). 
vaulted (val'ted), a. [< raulft + -erf2.] 1. 
Arched; concave: as, a r/iiillnl roof. 
Vauted all within, like to the Skye 
In which the Oods due dwell eternally. 
Spenter, f. Q., III. iv. 43. 
A present deity, they shout around : 
A present deity, the vaulted roofs rebound. 
Uryden, Alexander's Feast, 1. 36. 
2. Covered with an arch or vault. 
Undre thelse Stages hen Stables wel y vowted for the 
Emperours Hors ; and alle the Pileres ben of Marbelle. 
Mandeville. Travels, p. 17. 
First a loggia, then a plain vaulted building. 
R. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 85. 
3. Provided with vaults or underground pas- 
sages. 
as applied in a double curved 
Vaulting. Perspective of Vaulting as applied in a ti 
apsidal aisle. Church oINotre Dame, Pan 
Cylindrical or semi-cylindrical vaulting. See cy- 
lintirlr. Fan-tracery vaulting. See fan-tracery. 
Groined vaulting. See raulti. 
vaulting'-' (val'ting), . [Verbal n. of vault'*, 
.] The art or practice of a vaulter. 
\'iiiilti'mi on the High Rope, and Tumbling on the SUge. 
Quoted In Aihtmt's Social Life in Reign of (,neen 
(Anne, I. 261. 
stilt-miildX'/ Is dying out. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, III. 151 
vaulting-capital (val'ting-kap'i-tal), n. In 
mrdin'ol arch,, the capital of a shaft, usually 
an engaged shaft, which receives a rib of a 
vault. See vaulting-shaft. 
vaulting-horse (v&l'ting-hors), H. A wooden 
horse in a gymnasium for practice in vaulting. 
vaulting-houset (val'ting-hous), w. A brothel. 
.\fiixxinger. Unnatural Combat, iv. 2. [Low.] 
vaulting-pillar (val'ting-pil'Sr), . Same as 
rtinl tiny-waft. 
vaulting-shaft (val'ting-shaft), n. In arfli., a 
shaft, almost invariably engaged, rising from a 
floor or from the capi- 
ta) of a pier below, to 
receive the spring of 
a rib of a roof-vault; 
also, a shorter shaft 
engaged in the wall 
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- 
knowledged to spring from 
the wall, and be supported 
by it, its support should be 
carried visibly down to the 
ground. 
vaulting-tile (val'- 
ting-til), n. A special 
type of brick or tile, 
shaped according to * 
the work in hand :md 
made hollow in various forms, often perforated 
in compartments: used in vaulting, etc., to 
