CRYOPHORUS

(Gr. x^vos, and <p6§«, I bear.) The frost-bearer or carrier of cold; an instrument contrived by Dr. WoUaston for freezing water by its own evaporation. (Philos.Trans.\8\3, p. 71.) CRYPT. {Gr. x^urTu, I hide.) In Architecture, the under or hidden part of a building. It is used also to designate that part of the ancient churches and abbeys appropriated to the monuments of deceased persons. ( See Dugdale^s Monastic on.) [s. 316]