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Ruelle :: Ruelle (n.) A private circle or assembly at a private house; a circle.

Lancepesade :: Lancepesade (n.) An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal.

Board :: Board (n.) A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or private; a number of persons appointed or elected to sit in council for the management or direction of some public or private business or trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc..

Privity :: Privity (a.) The genitals; the privates.

Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain..

Simulty :: Simulty (n.) Private grudge or quarrel; as, domestic simulties..

Postern :: Postern (a.) Back; being behind; private.

By-walk :: By-walk (n.) A secluded or private walk.

Telltale :: Telltale (n.) One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.

Covert :: Covert (v. t.) Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

By :: By (a.) Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc..

Eavesdrop :: Eavesdrop (v. i.) To stand under the eaves, near a window or at the door, of a house, to listen and learn what is said within doors; hence, to listen secretly to what is said in private..

Treacherous :: Treacherous (a.) Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.

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..

Private :: Private (a.) Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life..

Inside :: Inside (n.) The inward parts; entrails; bowels; hence, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings..

Point :: Point (n.) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.

Satire :: Satire (a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal..

Reprimand :: Reprimand (n.) Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public..

Privately :: Privately (adv.) In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others.

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