cipher

A numeric character.dated

Any text character.obsolete

• In ſucceeding times this vnderſtanding wiſedome began to be written in Ciphers, and Characters, and letters bearing the forme of beaſtes, birds, and other creatures; […]

A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name.archaic

• a painter's cipher
• an engraver's cipher

A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.

• The message was written in a simple cipher. Anyone could figure it out.

A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.

• a public-key cipher

Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher.

• The message is clearly a cipher, but I can't figure it out.

A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods.obsolete

• The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros.

A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.

A hip-hop jam session.slang

• They say no girls in the cipher, so I rock solo

The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.slang

• As the night seemed darker, cops is on a hunt / They interrupt your cipher, and crush your blunt

To calculate.datedintransitiveregional

• I never learned much more than how to read and cipher.

To write in code or cipher.intransitive

Of an organ pipe: to sound independent of the organ.intransitive

To decipher.obsolete

• Yea the illiterate that know not how To cipher what is writ in learned bookes, VVill cote my lothſome treſpaſſe in my lookes.