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VAULT, s. [voulte, French; volta, Italian; voluta, low 
Latin.] A continued arch. 
O, you are men of stone : 
Had I your tongues and eyes. I’d use them so 
That heaven’s vault should crack. Shakspeare. 
A cellar. 
Creep into the kill-hole. 
He will seek there: neither press, well, vault, hut he hath 
an abstract for the remembrance of. Shakspeare. —A cave; 
a cavern. 
The silent vaults of death, unknown to light, 
And hell itself, lie naked to his sight. Sandys. 
A repository for the dead. 
Shall I not be stifled in the vault. 
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in ? 
Shakspeare. 
To VAULT, v. a. [voider, Fr.] To arch; to shape to 
a vault. 
Hath nature given them eyes 
To see this vaulted arch, and the rich cope 
Of sea and land, which can distinguish ’twixt 
The fiery orbs above, and the twinn'd stones 
Upon th’ humbl'd beach. Shakspeare. 
To cover with an arch. 
Over-head the dismal hiss 
Of fiery darts in flaming vollies flew; 
And flying vaulted either host with fire. Milton. 
To VAULT, v. n. [volteggiare, Ital.] To leap; to jump. 
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself. 
And falls on th’ other. Shakspeare. 
Vo play the tumbler, or posture-master. 
VAULT, s. A leap; a jump. 
VA'ULTAGE, s. Arched cellar. Not in use. 
He’ll call you to so hot an answer for it. 
That caves and womby vaultages of France 
Shall chide your trespass, and return your mock 
In second accent to his ordnance. Shakspeare. 
VAULTED, adj. Arched; concave. 
Restore the lock! she cries, and all around 
Restore the lock! the vaulted roofs rebound. Pope. 
VA'ULTER, s, A leaper; a jumper; a tumbler. 
They would leap to reach ’em, 
And leap aloft too.—Such are light enough: 
I am no vaulter, Beaum. and FI, 
VA'ULTY, adj. Arched; concave. A bad word, 
I will kiss thy detestable bones, 
And put my eye-balls in thy vaulty brows. 
And ring these fingers with thy household worms. 
Shakspeare, 
VAULX, a small town in the north-east of France, de¬ 
partment of the Pas de Calais; 4 miles north-east of Ba- 
paume. 
VAUMARCUS, a large and well built village in the west 
of Switzerland, canton of Neufchatel; 11 miles south-west 
of Neufchatel. 
To VAUNT, v. a. [vanter, Fr.] To boast; to display 
with ostentation.—My vanquisher spoil’d of his vaunted 
spoil. Milton. 
To VAUNT, v. n. To play the braggart; to talk with 
ostentation; to make vain show; to boast. 
You say, you are a better soldier; 
Let it appear so; make your vaunting true. Shakspeare. 
VAUNT, s. Brag; boast; vain ostentation. 
Him I seduc’d 
With other promises and other vaunts. Milton . 
VAUNT* s. The first part. Not used. 
Our play 
Leaps o’er the vaunt and firstlings. Shakspeare. 
VAUNT-COURIER, s. [avant courier, Fr.] A precursor. 
See Vancourirr. 
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires. 
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, 
Singe my white head! Shakspeare. 
VA'UNTER, s. [vanteur, Fr.] Boaster; braggart; man 
given to vain ostentation. 
Some feign 
To menage steeds as did this vaunter; but in vain, Spenser. 
VA'UNTFUL, adj. Boastful; ostentatious. 
Whiles all the heavens on lower creatures smil’d, 
Young Clarion, with vauntful lustihed, 
After his guise did cast abroad to fare. Spenser. 
VA'UNTINGLY, adv. Boastfully ; ostentatiously. 
I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spak’st it. 
That thou wert cause of noble Gloster’s death. Shakspeare. 
VA'UNTMURE, s. [avant mur, Fr.] A false wall; a 
work raised before the main wall.—With another engine 
named the warwolfe, he pierced with one stone, and cut, as 
even as a thread, two vauntmures. Camden. 
VAUQUELIN. See Iveteaux. 
VAURENARD, a small town in the south-east of France, 
department of the Rhone, with 1100 inhabitants. 
VAUS, a river of West Florida, which runs into the St. 
Mark. Lat. 30. 10. N. long, 84. 36. W. 
VAUVERT, a town in the south-east of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Gard, with 3400 inhabitants; 11 miles south- 
south-west of Nimes. 
VAUVILLERS, a small town in the east of France, de¬ 
partment of the Upper Saone; 22 miles north of Vezoul. 
VAUVINCOURT, a small town in the north-east of 
France, department of the Meuse; 6 miles north-east of 
Bar-sur-Ornain. 
VAUXHALL, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Lambeth, county of Surrey. Here is the celebrated Vaux- 
hall gardens, originally opened under the name of Spring 
gardens, in 1730, by Mr. Jonathan Tyers. Till of late years, 
the gardens were opened every evening during summer, for 
the reception of company; but they are now only admitted 
three times a week. The entertainment consists of music, 
vocal and instrumental, illuminations, and fire works; and 
all kinds of refreshments may be procured. 
VA'WARD, s. Fore part. Obsolete. 
Since we have the vaward of the day, 
My love shall hear the music of my hounds. Shakspeare. 
Marcius, 
Their bands i’ the vaward are the Antiates 
Of their best trust. Shakspeare. 
VAYA, an island of the Orinoco, one of those which form 
the entrance of the bay of Charaguanas with the point of 
Galera, off the island of Trinidad. 
VAYNOR, a parish of Wales, in Breconshire, near Brecon. 
Population 1616. 
VAYRAC, a small town in the south of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Lot; 22 miles north-east of Gourdon, 
VAZABARIS, a river of Brazil, in the province of Ser. 
gippe, which rises near the coast, runs south-south-east, and 
enters the bay of Sergippe. 
VAZSECH, a large village of the north-west of Hungary, 
in the palatinate of Lyptau, with 1600 inhabitants. 
UA1GHMOR, a hill of Scotland, in Perthshire, in the parish 
of Kilmadock, of considerable elevation, but principally no¬ 
ticed for a large natural cave in the south side, from whence 
it derives its name, Uaighmor signifying “ great cave.” 
UBALDI (Guido), an eminent mathematician of noble 
extraction from a branch of the family of Bourbon, studied 
under Condamine, and made early as well as rapid pro¬ 
ficiency. Mathematics and mechanics were his favourite 
objects; but in the latter science he published a work 
entitled 
