1. (a.) Assigned to private uses; not public; private\; as, the privy purse.

2. (a.) Secret; clandestine.

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

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

5. (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.

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

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