Private :: Private (n.) The private parts; the genitals.
Privateer :: Privateer (n.) An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy. See Letters of marque, under Marque..
Privateer :: Privateer (n.) The commander of a privateer.
Privateer :: Privateer (v. i.) To cruise in a privateer.
Privately :: Privately (adv.) In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others.
Privately :: Privately (adv.) In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited..
Privateness :: Privateness (n.) Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy.
Privateness :: Privateness (n.) The state of one not invested with public office.
Privation :: Privation (n.) The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation..
Privation :: Privation (n.) The state of being deprived or destitute of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need; as, to undergo severe privations..
Privation :: Privation (n.) The condition of being absent; absence; negation.
Privative :: Privative (a.) Consisting in the absence of something; not positive; negative.
Privative :: Privative (a.) Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. /), un-, non-, -less..
Privative :: Privative (n.) That of which the essence is the absence of something.
Privative :: Privative (n.) A term indicating the absence of any quality which might be naturally or rationally expected; -- called also privative term.
Privative :: Privative (n.) A privative prefix or suffix. See Privative, a., 3..
Privatively :: Privatively (adv.) In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.
Privilege :: Privilege (n.) A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise..
Privilege :: Privilege (n.) See Call, Put, Spread, etc..
Privilege :: Privilege (v. t.) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest..
Privilege :: Privilege (v. t.) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.