Cipher

·vt To designate by characters.

II. Cipher ·vt To write in occult characters.

III. Cipher ·vt To Decipher.

IV. Cipher ·noun A character in general, as a figure or letter.

V. Cipher ·noun One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.

VI. Cipher ·vt To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.

VII. Cipher ·adj Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.

VIII. Cipher ·vi To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.

IX. Cipher ·noun A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

X. 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.

XI. 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.