Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church);
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . .
treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of
antique learning. --Motley.
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My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. --Tennyson.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
crypt
n 1: a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially
beneath a church)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
crypt
Unix command to perform encryption and decryption.