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Drum :: Drum (n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout..

Tete-a-tete :: Tete-a-tete (n.) Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons.

Privateersman :: Privateersman (n.) An officer or seaman of a privateer.

Brief :: Brief (n.) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose..

Privy :: Privy (a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.

Self-interest :: Self-interest (n.) Private interest; the interest or advantage of one's self.

Intraparietal :: Intraparietal (a.) Situated or occurring within an inclosure; shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired.

Private :: Private (a.) Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding..

Hall :: Hall (n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment..

Camarilla :: Camarilla (n.) The private audience chamber of a king.

By-street :: By-street (n.) A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street..

Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..

Vendetta :: Vendetta (n.) A blood feud; private revenge for the murder of a kinsman.

Entertainment :: Entertainment (n.) That which entertains, or with which one is entertained; as: (a) Hospitality; hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) That which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversation, etc., or in public, by performances of some kind; amusement..

Home-felt :: Home-felt (a.) Felt in one's own breast; inward; private.

Privity :: Privity (a.) A private matter or business; a secret.

Relator :: Relator (n.) A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed..

Secretive :: Secretive (a.) Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition..

Carpetbagger :: Carpetbagger (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).

Dispensatory :: Dispensatory (n.) A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacop/ia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government..

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