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A piece of writing in code or cipher
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cryptograph
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Word definitions for cryptograph in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cryptograph \Cryp"to*graph\ (-gr?f), n. [Gr. krypto`s hidden + -graph: cf. F. cryptographe.] Cipher; something written in cipher. ``Decipherers of cryptograph.'' --J. Earle.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A cipher or cryptogram. 2 A device used for encrypting or (l en decrypting) text. vb. (context rare English) To write text using a code or cipher.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a secret method of writing [syn: cipher , cypher , secret code ] a piece of writing in code or cipher [syn: cryptogram , secret writing ] a device for deciphering codes and ciphers
Usage examples of cryptograph.
Aktiebolaget Cryptograph, which was in poor financial shape but which had a big order in its pocket, was purchased at a good price by the Hagelin interests and reorganized as Aktiebolaget Cryptoteknik, 14 Luntmakare-gatan, Stockholm.
Without noticing my abstraction, the Professor began reading the puzzling cryptograph all sorts of ways, according to some theory of his own.
According to the words of the learned Icelander, it was only to be known by that one particular mentioned in the cryptograph, that the shadow of Scartaris fell upon it, just touching its mouth in the last days of the month of June.
The guards did not challenge them as they entered an echoing corridor, the tall walls of which were decorated with peculiar cryptographs inlaid in silver, bronze and platinum.