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

Coach :: Coach (v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.

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

Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..

Shame :: Shame (n.) The parts which modesty requires to be covered; the private parts.

Subsigned :: Subsidy (n.) A grant from the government, from a municipal corporation, or the like, to a private person or company to assist the establishment or support of an enterprise deemed advantageous to the public; a subvention; as, a subsidy to the owners of a line of ocean steamships..

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..

Exhibition :: Exhibition (n.) Sustenance; maintenance; allowance, esp. for meat and drink; pension. Specifically: (Eng. Univ.) Private benefaction for the maintenance of scholars..

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

Self :: Self (n.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim..

Private :: Private (n.) Personal interest; particular business.

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

Billet :: Billet (v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses..

Repetitor :: Repetitor (n.) A private instructor.

Tutor :: Tutor (n.) A private or public teacher.

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..

Privateering :: Privateering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Privatee.

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

Caper :: Caper (n.) A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer..

Privateness :: Privateness (n.) Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy.

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