Thesaurus: crypt

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1. n. 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.
2. n. A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
3. n. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
4. 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. 2. (Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberk.
5. A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, thecryps of Lieberk.
6. n:100 n. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)