Privy

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  • adjective. Made a participant in knowledge of something private or secret.
  • adjective. Belonging or proper to a person, such as the British sovereign, in a private rather than official capacity.
  • adjective. Secret; concealed.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An outdoor toilet; an outhouse.
  • noun. A toilet.
  • noun. One in privity with another.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Private; pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public: as, the privy purse.
  • Secret; not seen openly; not made known in public.
  • Private; appropriated to retirement; sequestered; retired.
  • Privately knowing; admitted to the participation with another in knowledge of a secret transaction: generally with to.
  • Intimate; familiar; on confidential terms; well known.
  • Cognizant (of), acquainted (with).
  • noun. In law, one standing in a relation of privily to another. See privity, 7.
  • noun. A secret friend.
  • noun. A necessary.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private.
  • adjective. Secret; clandestine.
  • adjective. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
  • adjective. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
  • adjective. a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • adjective. the principal council of the sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other persons chosen by the king or queen.
  • adjective. a member of the privy council.
  • adjective. moneys set apart for the personal use of the monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of these moneys.
  • adjective. the seal which the king uses in grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which he uses in matters of subordinate consequence which do not require the great seal; also, elliptically, the principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the privy seal.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. a verdict given privily to the judge out of court; -- now disused.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A necessary house or place for performing excretory functions in private; an outhouse; a backhouse.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Private, exclusive; that is one's own.
  • adjective. Secret, hidden, concealed.
  • adjective. With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
  • noun. An outdoor toilet; latrine; earth closet; john; johnny house.
  • noun. A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
  • adjective. (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known
  • noun. a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
  • adjective. hidden from general view or use
  • Word Usage
    "Bacillus coli inhabits the internal tract of cattle as well as of man, but when in a farmyard the privy is as near to the shallow well as is the dung heap, it is not exactly safe to suppose that these and other contaminating microbes are derived only from harmless cattle."
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    divvy  kivi  
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    privier  priviest