cyphering
English edit
Verb edit
cyphering
- present participle and gerund of cypher
Noun edit
cyphering (plural cypherings)
- Skill in arithmetic.
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, act I, scene 1L:
- That knows the law, and writes you six fair hands,
Is a fine clerk, and has his cyphering perfect.