Decipher

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To Stamp; to Detect; to Discover.

II. Decipher ·vt To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

III. Decipher ·vt To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to Detect; to Reveal; to Unfold.