Decipher \De*ci"pher\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deciphered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deciphering}.] [Pref. de- + cipher. Formed in imitation of F. d['e]chiffrer. See {Cipher}.] 1. To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.
2. To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold.
3. To stamp; to detect; to discover. [R.]
You are both deciphered, . . . For villains. --Shak.
With the plethora of diet plans available and labels on food difficult to decipher, consumers need someone to cut a path through it all.
A chart used to decipher the code was found among Booth's effects after he was shot by Union soldiers 11 days after the assassination of Lincoln.
Every year, they must decipher a sponsor-supplied "Schedule K-1 Partners' Share of Income, Credits, Deductions, Etc." for their partnership.
Authorities were trying to decipher the coded documents, Finoli said.
Both were in coded Italian which police were trying to decipher, he said.
In 1953, he was named to an international team formed to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were discovered in caves at Qumran on the shores of the Dead Sea six years earlier.
She writes with wonder about what is going on in their brains as they come upon the bones of an elephant and minutely inspect them, throwing them in the air, perhaps to decipher the correct obituary.
"We have a note that we're examining at this time," Moore said. "It's somewhat illegible and we're attempting to decipher what it says.
I learned to decipher medical journals, quizzed ex-patients and knowledgeable friends and strangers, and taxed the good will of two hometown cardiologists and a half-dozen specialists elsewhere.
The American economy has been hard to decipher in recent months, but the simple message is one of steady growth.
A recurrent problem for any editor is Johnson's hand-writing, which is often difficult to decipher. Chapman spotted mistakes made by earlier editors but then went on to make some of his own.
One document is a cryptographic key card, which gives a list of codes needed to decipher scrambled communications; no information was released concerning the second document.
Georgopoulos has worked since 1980 to decipher the electrical brain activity that determines how an animal responds to stimulus, such as a shining light.
Autos, which account for about 5% of GNP, bedevil economic forecasters who try to decipher demand.