Definitions for privies

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privies priv·y

Spelling: [priv-ee]

IPA: /ˈprɪv i/

Privies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in privies (eiiprsv).

Definitions for privies

noun

1. outhouse (def 1).
2. Law. a person participating directly in or having a derivative interest in a legal transaction.

adjective

1. participating in the knowledge of something private or secret (usually followed by to):
2. private; assigned to private uses.
3. belonging or pertaining to some particular person, especially with reference to a sovereign.
4. secret, concealed, hidden, or secluded.
5. acting or done in secret.

Origin of privies

1175-1225; Middle English prive Old French: private (adj.), close friend, private place (noun) Latin prīvātus private

Examples for privies

Danger, from drainage of barns and barnyards, 137;from leachings from privies and cesspools, 138.

privies and sinks are more numerous than modern closets, and are handled as elsewhere, with the usual results.

privies began to be erected at Warsaw for the first time only within these few years830.

Stables and privies must be at least a hundred feet from water reservoirs.

Suppose the manure-pile in the barnyard also sends down its supply, and the privies contribute theirs.

Under these circumstances thorough disinfection of the privies checked the spread of the disease.

Permanence, transience—Sir Ferdinando and his privies were gone, Crome still stood.

The perfumers sometimes expose it to the fetid ammoniacal effluvia of privies for the same purpose.

Great attention is to be paid to the cleanliness of the privies.

For non-compliance with notice for the construction of drains, privies, &c., 10s.