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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vaulted \Vault"ed\, adjective
1. Arched; concave; as, a vaulted roof.
2. Covered with an arch, or vault.
3. (Bot.) Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vault \Vault\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Vaulted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vaulting}.] [OE. vouten, OF. volter, vouter, F. vo[^u]ter. See {Vault} an arch.]
1. To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.
The shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley. --Sir W. Scott.
2. [See {Vault}, verb (used without an object)] To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.
I will vault credit, and affect high pleasures. --Webster (1623).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vaulted
adjective: having a hemispherical vault or dome [syn: {domed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "vaulted": arched, arciform, arclike, arcual, bandy, bowed, bowlike, concave, convex, embowed, gibbose, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, humpy, hunched, hunchy, oxbow
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