Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ciphering"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cipher \Ci"pher\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ciphered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Ciphering}.]
To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in
arithmetic.
``T was certain he could write and cipher too.
--Goldsmith.
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