steganography

[Gr. steganos covered, secret, and grapho to write; Fr. stéganographie.] The art of secret writing; the art of writing in cipher, or in characters intelligible only to those who have the key; cryptography. "Such occult notes, steganography, polygraphy, or magnetical telling of their minds." -Burton: Anat. of Melan ., p. 503. †steg-an-oph-thai-ma-ta, s . pl . [Mod. Latin, from Gr. steganos covered, and ophthalmos =the eye.] Zoology : A group of organisms which, with the Gym no pht halm at a (q. v.), made up the old subcla Acalephe (q. v.). [STEGANOPHTHALMATEMEDUSE.] †stěg-an-oph-thal-māte, steg-an-oph-thăl moŭs, a . [STEGANOPHTHALMATA.] Having the eyes covered or protected. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; stěg-õph-Il-us, 8. [Pref. ste go-, and Gr. philō = to love.] Ichthy.: A genus of Siluride (q. v.). Body narrow, cylindrical, and elongate, a small barbel at each maxillary; short, stiff spines in operculum and inter operculum. Ste go phil us and the closely allied genus Van dell i a constitute the group Branch i cole. They are from South America, and live parasitically in the gill-cavities of larger fishes. stěg-o-sâu-ri-a, s. pl. [Mod. Lat., from ste go saurus (q. v.).] Palæont.: An order of Cope's sub-cla Dinosaur i a, with two families, Scelidosauridse and Stegosaur ide. Feet plantigrade, with five digits, ungulate; fore-limbs very small, locomotion mainly on hind limbs; vertebræ and limb-bones solid; a bony dermal armor; herbivorous.