CIPHER

vt to designate by characters.

2. cipher ·vt to write in occult characters.

3. cipher ·vt to decipher.

4. cipher ·noun a character in general, as a figure or letter.

5. cipher ·noun one who, or that which, has no weight or influence.

6. cipher ·vt to get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.

7. cipher ·adj of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.

8. cipher ·vi to use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.

9. cipher ·noun a character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

10. cipher ·noun a private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.

11. cipher ·noun a combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, ·etc. the cut represents the initials n. w.