The Only Use of
cipher
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Anyway, it lays there a long time and gets rusty; and by and by somebody finds an old yellow paper that tells how to find the marks—a paper that's got to be ciphered over about a week because it's mostly signs and hy'roglyphics."†
Chpt 25
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