1. (a.) Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern\; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.
2. (a.) Privacy; secrecy; confidence.
3. (n.) A private matter or business; a secret.
4. (n.) The genitals; the privates.
5. (n.) A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.