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Look up: privy

  1. privy
    [adj] - hidden from general view or use
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Privy
    An outside toilet that may not have drainage, so may need to emptied manually.
    Found on http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/k

  3. Privy
    Priv'y adjective [ French privé , from Latin 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 ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/164

  4. Privy
    Priv'y noun ; plural 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...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/164

  5. privy
    secluded adjective hidden from general view or use; `a privy place to rest and think`; `a secluded romantic spot`; `a secret garden`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. Privy
    • (n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse. • (a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing. • (a.) Secret; clandestine. • (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public. • (n.) A partaker; a person having an ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. privy
    privy 1. Made a party to private or secret information; belonging or proper to a person or individual. 2. In law, one of the parties having an interest in the same matter. 3. Sharing knowledge of something secret or private: 'We were privy to the plans of the couple to run away and to get married.' ...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  8. privy
    • a room equipped with toilet facilities
    • a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate

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11 February 2012

This day in history:
On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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