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 signet, the seal which the king uses in
grants, etc., which are to pass the great seal, or which he 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.