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De - Pt| English Dictionary: crypt | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for crypt | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Crypt \Crypt\ (kr[icr]pt), n. [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. kry`pth, fr. kry`ptein to hide. See {Grot}, {Grotto}.] 1. A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel 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. 2. (Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk[uum]hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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crypt {Unix} command to perform {encryption} and {decryption}. | |
