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Webster 1913 Edition
Crypt
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 Lieberkühn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestinesWebster 1828 Edition
Crypt
CRYPT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
crypt
crypt
English
Mary Todd Lincoln's crypt
Noun
crypt (plural crypts)
- An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 3/2/1, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorous crypt of winter.
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- (anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the body
See also
- encrypt (slang)
Translations
undergound vault
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