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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crypt \Crypt\ (kr[i^]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["u]hn, the simple
tubular glands of the small intestines.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
crypt
n : a cellar or vault or underground chamber (especially beneath
a church)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
crypt
{Unix} command to perform {encryption} and {decryption}.
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