meaning of privy

1. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
2.
Secret; clandestine.
3.
Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
4.
Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
5.
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.
A necessary house or place; a backhouse.
7.
a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate


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