Word Meanings - FORMERET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted with ribs.

Related words: (words related to FORMERET)

• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• VAULT
  An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray. 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• CEIL
  heaven, vault, arch, covering; cf. Gr. 1. To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room. The greater house he ceiled with fir tree. 2 Chron. iii. 5 2. To line or finish a surface, as of a wall,
• CEILING
  The inner planking of a vessel. Camp ceiling. See under Camp. -- Ceiling boards, Thin narrow boards used to ceil with. (more info) The inside lining of a room overhead; the under side of the floor above; the upper surface opposite to the floor.
• VAULTER
  One who vaults; a leaper; a tumbler. B. Jonson.
• VAULTED
  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.
• VAULTAGE
  Vaulted work; also, a vaulted place; an arched cellar. Shak.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• CROSS-VAULTING
  Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
• BIVAULTED
  Having two vaults or arches.