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Word Meanings - VAULT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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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. "Charnel vaults." Milton. The silent vaults of death. Sandys. To banish rats that haunt our vault. Swift. 3. The canopy of heaven; the sky. That heaven's vault should crack. Shak. (more info) for voluta, volutio, fr. L. volvere, volutum, to roll, to turn about.

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    The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
  • SPREADINGLY
    , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
  • BOUNDLESS
    Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
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    See CRYPTOGRAPHER
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    See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
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    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
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    One who exposes or discloses.
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    One who suppresses.
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    1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
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    Kept at home.
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    Outward bound. Dryden.
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    Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
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    The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
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    Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.

 

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