WordNet
n. a piece of writing in code or cipher [syn: cryptogram, cryptograph]
act of writing in code or cipher [syn: cryptography, coding]
Usage examples of "secret writing".
Paul's Walk to sell some ancient manuscripts, a man who spoke of the wise Adapa and the Hidden Treasure of the Secret Writing.
Everywhere he looked there was black crayon script, her secret writing flung across the walls from floor to ceiling, uninterrupted by windows, doors, corners of the room.
The puta in the next cell who supplies me with mother's milk for my secret writing?
There were many volumes on secret writing systems, a whole collection on cryptography, and some works on paleography and diplomatic history.
That, however it is disguised or concealed - microdot, secret writing, undeveloped film, anyone of the hundred risky, finicky ways - still as an object it must be the first and lightest thing that comes to hand, the least conspicuous when jettisoned !
Helen says, still holding a page of the grimoire to the window, trying to read the secret writing.
It did not even need any secret writing on it, just the signature Yuri.
They taught the thirty-year-old Chilean secret writing and basic codes, miniature photography and the reduction of photographs to microdots.
There were books on navigation, agriculture, architecture, medicine, horticulture, theology, education, natural philosophy, astronomy, astrology, mathematics, geometry and steganography or 'secret writing'.
Only a man who is unfamiliar with a language thinks of it as a kind of secret writing.