crypt

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning.— Motley.[1913 Webster]
My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

crypt

Unix command to perform encryption and decryption.

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