Available Definitions:
1) n. - A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.
2) n. - One who, or that which, has no weight or influence.
3) n. - A character in general, as a figure or letter.
4) n. - A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram; as, a painter's cipher, an engraver's cipher, etc. The cut represents the initials N. W.
5) n. - A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters.
6) a. - Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
7) v. i. - To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in arithmetic.
8) v. t. - To write in occult characters.
9) v. t. - To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
10) v. t. - To decipher.
11) v. t. - To designate by characters.