Definition of "sypher" []

• To overlap and even (chamfered or beveled plank edges) so that they form a flush surface. (verb-transitive)

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• "Thomas Usk about 1387 writes: [479] "a sypher in augrim have no might in signification of it-selve, yet he yeveth power in signification to other.""
• "The jnside was ye same, at the head piece was Like Curtaines ffringed round wth gold and tyed back wth Gold strings and tassells as it were tyed back and soe hung down in the middle, where was the Crown and sypher Embroyder'd; the hangings ye same and such another screen aCrosse the roome to secure the bed from ye Common."
• "In 1704 the town empowered the selectmen "to call and settell a gramer scoll according to ye best of yower judgement and for ye advantag [Keais is obviously dead now] of ye youth of ower town to learn them to read from ye primer, to wright and sypher and to learne ym the tongues and good-manners.""