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cipher
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cipher as in:  a secret cipher

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  • The Atbash Cipher is one of the oldest codes known to man.  (source)
    Cipher = system to encode and decode messages so those who don't know the system can't understand the messages
  • In the center, a white oval enamel medallion bore the cipher of Nicholas II in diamonds and gold.†  (source)
  • 'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too.†  (source)
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  • They were written in a strange cipher which no one had been able to break: it had taken him less than an hour to crack the code no one had realized that Leonardo had written his diaries not only in code, but in mirror image.†  (source)
  • I learned some ciphers and wrote some letters, but that was all—†  (source)
  • The only subjects that came easily were those taught by Writing Mistress: composition and ciphering.†  (source)
  • I said, eyeing the snowy cuff of his shirt, which was embroidered with a tiny cypher in Chinese red, block letters so small and stylized they were nearly invisible.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling option. The British also use cipher which is used by Americans.
  • Almost as quickly as Napoleon's original letter reached the King, Robespierre would have this ciphered letter in his hands.†  (source)
  • These are hieroglyphical; that is, if you call those mysterious cyphers on the walls of pyramids hieroglyphics, then that is the proper word to use in the present connexion.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling option. The British also use ciphers which is used by Americans.
  • The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling option. The British also use ciphered which is used by Americans.
  • Down in Bleeding Heart Yard there was scarcely an inhabitant of note to whom Mr Pancks had not imparted his demonstration, and, as figures are catching, a kind of cyphering measles broke out in that locality, under the influence of which the whole Yard was light-headed.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling option. The British also use ciphering which is used by Americans.
  • And sometimes I will write them out now, again, though for myself, those old strokes, unofficial versions of any newcomer I see in the street or on the bus or in the demi-shops of the city, the need in me still to undo the cipherlike faces scrawled with hard work, and no work, and all trouble.†  (source)
  • The official records of the Sons of Jacob meetings were destroyed after the middle-period Great Purge, which discredited and liquidated a number of the original architects of Gilead; but we have access to some information through the diary kept in cipher by Wilfred Limpkin, one of the sociobiologists present.†  (source)
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There was no ciphering her out by the rules that worked with other children.  (source)
ciphering = figuring
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