PRIVATE
Pri"vate, n.
1. A secret message; a personal unofficial communication. [Obs.] Shak.
2. Personal interest; particular business.[Obs.] Nor must I be unmindful of my private. B. Jonson.
3. Privacy; retirement. [Archaic] "Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private." Shak.
4. One not invested with a public office. [Archaic] What have kings, that privates have not too Shak.
5. (Mil.)
Defn: A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer. Macaulay.
6. pl.
Defn: The private parts; the genitals. In private, secretly; not openly or publicly.
PRIVATEER
Pri`va*teer" n. Etym: [From Private.]