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Openly :: Openly (adv.) In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy.

Hospital :: Hospital (n.) A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled, infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for..

Private :: Private (a.) Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer..

Policy :: Policy (n.) Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit.

By-respect :: By-respect (n.) Private end or view; by-interest.

Disinterest :: Disinterest (n.) Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness.

Backstair :: Backstair (a.) Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs.

Particularity :: Particularity (n.) Something of special or private concern or interest.

Postern :: Postern (n.) Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate..

Inimical :: Inimical (a.) Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity..

Eavesdropping :: Eavesdropping (n.) The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law..

Domestically :: Domestically (adv.) In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

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

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..

Embezzle :: Embezzle (v. t.) To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust..

Secretary :: Secretary (n.) A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual..

Retired :: Retired (a.) Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits..

Anecdote :: Anecdote (n.) A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

Privateered :: Privateered (imp. & p. p.) of Privatee.

Closely :: Closely (adv.) Secretly; privately.

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