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Subalmoner :: Subaid (v. t.) To aid secretly; to assist in a private manner, or indirectly..

Rehearsal :: Rehearsal (n.) The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise..

Tete-a-tete :: Tete-a-tete (a.) Private; confidential; familiar.

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

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..

Privateness :: Privateness (n.) The state of one not invested with public office.

Poach :: Poach (v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon..

Clandestine :: Clandestine (a.) Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage..

Esoteric :: Esoteric (a.) Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric..

Countersign :: Countersign (a.) A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword..

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

Act :: Act (v. i.) To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so..

Private :: Private (n.) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.

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..

Private :: Private (a.) Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding..

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

Capelle :: Capelle (n.) The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church.

Guardsman :: Guardsman (n.) A member, either officer or private, of any military body called Guards..

Subsidies :: Subsidize (v. t.) To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line..

By-end :: By-end (n.) Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.

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