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- verb Present participle of
cypher .
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Examples
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Down in Bleeding Heart Yard there was scarcely an inhabitant of note to whom Mr Pancks had not imparted his demonstration, and, as figures are catching, a kind of cyphering measles broke out in that locality, under the influence of which the whole Yard was light – headed.
Little Dorrit 2007
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I will have to do a little bit of "cyphering" and determine whether or not there is enough table space for all of these figures.
Archive 2007-10-01 Der Alte Fritz 2007
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Down in Bleeding Heart Yard there was scarcely an inhabitant of note to whom Mr Pancks had not imparted his demonstration, and, as figures are catching, a kind of cyphering measles broke out in that locality, under the influence of which the whole Yard was light-headed.
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841
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Yes | No | Report from cooner wrote 19 hours 41 min ago get the calculator out and do your cyphering Jethro, ought gazinta ought. but first you will need to know how much weight your feeder is tossing out in five seconds.
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Yes | No | Report from cooner wrote 19 hours 41 min ago get the calculator out and do your cyphering Jethro, ought gazinta ought. but first you will need to know how much weight your feeder is tossing out in five seconds.
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Forget all that cyphering and figuring, madashell.
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I'd been cyphering away until Second Thessalonians was dog-eared, without reply.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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I'd been cyphering away until Second Thessalonians was dog-eared, without reply.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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And then, the Cantorei itself -- had not his cousin Frankh assured him that he would be taught singing and to play the clavier and violin by the best masters, in addition to Latin, writing, and cyphering?
Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham
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"Reading, writing, cyphering, enough to reckon up a store bill, if she should ever have one, and enough of geography to keep her from losing her way in the world."
The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens
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