Definition of privy

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Privy (a.) Secret; clandestine.

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Backhouse :: Backhouse (n.) A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.
Nakedness :: Nakedness (n.) The privy parts; the genitals.
Cloaca :: Cloaca (n.) A privy.
Necessary :: Necessary (n.) A privy; a water-closet.
Starched :: Star-chamber (n.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641..
Gong :: Gong (n.) A privy or jakes.
Water-closet :: Water-closet (n.) A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it..
Privily :: Privily (adv.) In a privy manner; privately; secretly.
Cesspool :: Cesspool (n.) A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth..
Cockpit :: Cockpit (n.) The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.
Wardrobe :: Wardrobe (v. t.) A privy.
Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy..
Draughthouse :: Draughthouse (n.) A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.
Privy :: Privy (a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse..
Stabber :: Stabber (n.) One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer..
Draught :: Draught (n.) A sink or drain; a privy.
Privy :: Privy (a.) Secret; clandestine.
Privy :: Privy (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
Privy :: Privy (a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
Jakes :: Jakes (n.) A privy.
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