Word Meanings - CRYPT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberk. (more info) 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.

Additional info about word: CRYPT

A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberk. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRYPT)

• Tomb
• Grave
• vault
• catacomb
• sepulcher
• crypt
• house of death
• narrow house
• long home

Related words: (words related to CRYPT)

• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• CRYPTOGRAPHIST
  See CRYPTOGRAPHER
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• CRYPTOGRAM
  A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• CRYPTOPINE
  A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• HOUSEWIFE
  A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
• CRYPTOBRANCHIATA
  A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata. A group of nudibranch mollusks.
• HOUSEWARMING
  A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• SEPULCHER; SEPULCHRE
  The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb. The stony entrance of this sepulcher. Shak. The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto
• HOUSEBOTE
  Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.
• HOUSEROOM
  Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• WAREHOUSE
  A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.
• POSTHOUSE
  1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
• HENHOUSE
  A house or shelter for fowls.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• TRUGGING-HOUSE
  A brothel. Robert Greene.
• FULL HOUSE
  A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.
• WATCHHOUSE
  1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• TIRING-HOUSE
  A tiring-room. Shak.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• HOTHOUSE
  A heated room for drying green ware. (more info) 1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened. 2. A bagnio, or bathing house. Shak.
• BEADHOUSE; BEDEHOUSE
  An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.