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or oratory. Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley. My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to crypts.

Hidden; secret; occult. "Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working." Glanvill.

Secretly; occultly.

oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.

A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata.

Having concealed or rudimentary gills.

Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.

A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. Henslow.

The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.

Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.

One skilled in cryptogamic botany.

A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.

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.

Secret or enigmatical language. Johnson.