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Bible Dictionaries
Cipher
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(v. t.) To decipher.
(3):
(n.) A character (0) which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.
(4):
(n.) A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.
(5):
(a.) Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
(6):
(n.) One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.
(7):
(n.) A character in general, as a figure or letter.
(8):
(v. t.) To designate by characters.
(9):
(v. i.) To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.
(10):
(v. t.) To write in occult characters.
(11):
(v. t.) To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Cipher'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/cipher.html. 1828.
