of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.-secret; clandestine.-appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.-admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.-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.-a necessary house or place; a backhouse.