cryptograph

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Still, the few figures etched on old cemetery headstones are like cryptographs, offering clues to visitors trying to crack the mystical code of how lives were lived.

From New York Times

Natural history is not a cryptograph to be deciphered, it is a series of facts and incidents to be observed and recorded.

From Project Gutenberg

I mean to have a try at our cryptograph.

From Project Gutenberg

Golconda: a place near Hyderabad, India, noted for its diamonds. cryptographs: from two Greek words meaning hidden and write.

From Project Gutenberg

I declare it puts me in mind of a cryptograph," he cried, "unless, indeed, the letters have been written without any real meaning; and yet why take so much trouble?

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