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Pronunciation : Crypt (krpt)
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. Crot, Crotto.]
Definition : 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.)

Defn: A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberk.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913