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Cipher; something written in cipher. "Decipherers of cryptograph." J. Earle.

Pertaining to cryptography; cryptographical. Boyle.

One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.

Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.

Same as Cryptographer.

The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.

Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.

Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.

Producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue.

Cell production or development; cytogenesis.

Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.

An anatomical description of, or treatise on, the skin.

A telephonic instrument for office or other similar use, having a sound-magnifying device enabling the ordinary mouthpiece to be dispensed with. Much use has been made of it for overhearing, or for recording, conversations for the purpose of obtaining evidence for use in litigation.

A red crystalline nitrogenous substance or artificial production, which by reduction passes directly to indigo.

Same as Ellipsograph.

The art of making or of solving enigmas.

Pertaining to the interior of the stomach; -- applied to a mode of budding from the interior of the gastric cavity, in certain hydroids.

See Endogenous.

Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.

Producing epilepsy or epileptoid convulsions; -- applied to areas of the body or of the nervous system, stimulation of which produces convulsions.