All 5 Uses of
cipher
in
Leaves of Grass
- …see, dance, laugh, sing; As the hugging and loving bed-fellow sleeps at my side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day with stealthy tread, Leaving me baskets cover'd with white towels swelling the house with their plenty, Shall I postpone my acceptation and realization and scream at my eyes, That they turn from gazing after and down the road, And forthwith cipher and show me to a cent, Exactly the value of one and exactly the value of two, and which is ahead?†
Chpt 3
- I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems.†
Chpt 3 *
- Only the tiresome spelling, writing, ciphering classes?†
Chpt 24
- Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher I doubt it not—then more, far more; In each old song bequeath'd—in every noble page or text, (Different—something unreck'd before—some unsuspected author,) In every object, mountain, tree, and star—in every birth and life, As part of each—evolv'd from each—meaning, behind the ostent, A mystic cipher waits infolded.†
Chpt 34
- I doubt it not——then more, far more; In each old song bequeath'd——in every noble page or text, (Different——something unreck'd before——some unsuspected author,) In every object, mountain, tree, and star——in every birth and life, As part of each——evolv'd from each——meaning, behind the ostent, A mystic cipher waits infolded.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(cipher as in: a secret cipher) a secret way to write a disguised message; or such a message; or the act of writing such a message; or a key used to disguise such a message