ppl. a. [f. CIPHER v.]
1. Written in cipher.
1611. Cotgr., Enchiffré, cyphered; expressed or set down in cyphers.
1787. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), II. 327. The cyphered paragraph respecting myself.
1883. Froude, in 19th Cent., XIII. 651. Thousands of ciphered despatches with rough drafts of as many ciphered answers.
1885. Athenæum, 371/1. The ciphered portion of this despatch.
2. Naval Arch. (See quot.)
c. 1850. Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 101. Those in the hold are … built with rabbeted or ciphered plank. Ibid., 154. Syphered. A mode of joining, by over-lapping the edge of one plank upon another, with a bevelling edge … in such a manner that both planks shall make a plain surface.
