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  1. 1. a. Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Secret; clandestine. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public. Source: opted
  4. 4. a. Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing. Source: opted
  5. 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. Source: opted
  6. 6. n. A necessary house or place; a backhouse. Source: opted
  7. 7. adj. hidden from general view or use Source: wordnet
  8. 8. adj. (followed by ‘to’) informed about something secret or not generally known Source: wordnet
  9. 9. n. a room or building equipped with one or more toilets Source: wordnet
  10. 10. n. a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate Source: wordnet
  11. 11. A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing;one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a personhaving an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which heis not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, isdistinguished from party. Burrill. Wharton. Source: adambom

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