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By-lane :: By-lane (n.) A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road..

Genitals :: Genitals (a.) The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.

By-room :: By-room (n.) A private room or apartment.

Auricular :: Auricular (a.) Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest..

Parade :: Parade (v. t.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled..

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..

Bolting :: Bolting (n.) A private arguing of cases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court..

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

Chamberlain :: Chamberlain (n.) An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court..

Elope :: Elope (v. t.) To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart..

Chairman :: Chairman (n.) The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body..

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..

Oratory :: Oratory (n.) A place of orisons, or prayer; especially, a chapel or small room set apart for private devotions..

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).

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

Job :: "Job (n.) A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business..

Selfishly :: Selfishly (adv.) In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.

Chapel :: Chapel (n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial.

Privity :: Privity (a.) Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.

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..

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