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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
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    'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too.†  (source)
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    In the center, a white oval enamel medallion bore the cipher of Nicholas II in diamonds and gold.†  (source)
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    This time, although he couldn't cipher but one word, he believed he knew who spoke them.†  (source)
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    It was clear and pale and it came to us in a bottle free from grime and Napoleonic ciphers.†  (source)
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    The only subjects that came easily were those taught by Writing Mistress: composition and ciphering.†  (source)
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    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.
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    Almost as quickly as Napoleon's original letter reached the King, Robespierre would have this ciphered letter in his hands.†  (source)
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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)
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    Can you cipher too—along with your reading and writing?†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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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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