Privy

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Secret; clandestine.

II. Privy ·noun A necessary house or place; a backhouse.

III. Privy ·adj Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.

IV. Privy ·adj Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.

V. Privy ·adj Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.

VI. Privy ·noun 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.

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