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Tantivy :: Tantivy (n.) A rapid, violent gallop; an impetuous rush..

Cloaca :: Cloaca (n.) A privy.

Decadist :: Decadist (n.) A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist..

Tunhoof :: Tunhoof (n.) Ground ivy; alehoof.

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

Gill :: Gill (n.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names..

Water-closet :: Water-closet (n.) A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it..

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

Tantivy :: Tantivy (adv.) Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy..

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

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 (a.) Secret; clandestine.

Patavinity :: Patavinity (n.) The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity..

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

Decade :: Decade (n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy..

Ivy :: Ivy (n.) A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers..

Chevy :: Chevy (v. t.) See Chivy, v. t..

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

Thyrsus :: Thyrsus (n.) A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites..

Hederiferous :: Hederiferous (a.) Producing ivy; ivy-bearing.

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