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One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. Here he was a mere cipher. W. Irving.

One who ciphers.

Nothingness. [R.] Goodwin.

To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.

One who deciphers.

A woman who deciphers.

The act of deciphering.

Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.

To decipher; as, to uncipher a letter. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

abia or the Arabians. Arabic numerals or figures, the nine digits, 1, 2, 3, etc., and the cipher 0. -- Gum arabic. See under Gum.

to the binary scale, or in which two figures only, 0 and 1, are used, in lieu of ten; the cipher multiplying everything by two, as in common arithmetic by ten. Thus, 1 is one; 10 is two; 11 is three; 100 is four, etc. Davies & Peck. -- Binary compound (Chem.), a compound of two elements, or of an element and a compoun…

A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.

An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book. The colophon, or final description, fell into disuse, and . . . the title page had become the principal direct means of identifying the book. De Morgan. The book was uninj…

To signify or denote in combination with something else. The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. Horne Tooke.

A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.

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

One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.

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

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