1. (Arch.) 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.

The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Section T, U, V, and W · 第 2337 / 3573 题