Definitions for: Privy


[n] a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
[n] a room equipped with toilet facilities
[adj] hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden"



Webster (1913) Definition: Priv"y, a. [F. priv['e], fr. L. privatus. See
Private.]
1. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to
private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. ``
Privee knights and squires.'' --Chaucer.

2. Secret; clandestine. `` A privee thief.'' --Chaucer.

3. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the
public. `` Privy chambers.'' --Ezek. xxi. 14.

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

His wife also being privy to it. --Acts v. 2.

Myself am one made privy to the plot. --Shak.

Privy chamber, a private apartment in a royal residence.
[Eng.]

Privy council (Eng. Law), the principal council of the
sovereign, composed of the cabinet ministers and other
persons chosen by the king or queen. --Burrill.

Privy councilor, a member of the privy council.

Privy purse, moneys set apart for the personal use of the
monarch; also, the title of the person having charge of
these moneys. [Eng.] --Macaulay.

Privy seal or signed, the seal which the king uses in
grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which
the uses in matters of subordinate consequence which do
not require the great seal; also, elliptically, the
principal secretary of state, or person intrusted with the
privy seal. [Eng.]

Privy verdict, a verdict given privily to the judge out of
court; -- now disused. --Burrill.


Priv"y, n.; pl. Privies.
1. (Law) 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. --Burrill. Wharton.

2. A necessary house or place; a backhouse.

Synonyms: bathroom, can, earth-closet, jakes, john, lav, lavatory, outhouse, private, secluded, secret, toilet

See Also: closet, comfort station, commode, convenience, crapper, head, loo, outbuilding, pot, potty, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, restroom, room, stool, throne, toilet facility, W.C., wash room, washroom, water closet

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