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Draughthouse :: Draughthouse (n.) A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.

Privy :: Privy (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.

Roundhouse :: Roundhouse (n.) A privy near the bow of the vessel.

Cockpit :: Cockpit (n.) The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.

Gong :: Gong (n.) A privy or jakes.

Privy :: Privy (a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.

Privy :: Privy (n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party..

Draught :: Draught (n.) A sink or drain; a privy.

Latrine :: Latrine (n.) A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc..

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..

Wardrobe :: Wardrobe (v. t.) A privy.

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..

Privy :: Privy (n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.

Privy :: Privy (a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse..

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..

Necessary :: Necessary (n.) A privy; a water-closet.

Privily :: Privily (adv.) In a privy manner; privately; secretly.

Jakes :: Jakes (n.) A privy.

Nakedness :: Nakedness (n.) The privy parts; the genitals.

Backhouse :: Backhouse (n.) A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

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