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Privy :: Privy (a.) Secret; clandestine.

Privy :: Privy (n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party..

Draught :: Draught (n.) A sink or drain; a privy.

Roundhouse :: Roundhouse (n.) A privy near the bow of the vessel.

Draughthouse :: Draughthouse (n.) A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.

Privily :: Privily (adv.) In a privy manner; privately; secretly.

Cesspool :: Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth..

Jakes :: Jakes (n.) A privy.

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

Cloaca :: Cloaca (n.) A privy.

Privy :: Privy (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.

Privy :: Privy (n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.

Wardrobe :: Wardrobe (v. t.) A privy.

Starched :: Star-chamber (n.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641..

Privy :: Privy (a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse..

Private :: Private (a.) Having secret or private knowledge; privy.

Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy..

Backhouse :: Backhouse (n.) A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

Signet :: Signet (n.) A seal; especially, in England, the seal used by the sovereign in sealing private letters and grants that pass by bill under the sign manual; -- called also privy signet..

Stabber :: Stabber (n.) One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer..

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