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To be injured; to sustain loss or damage. Public business suffers by private infirmities. Sir W. Temple.

on the king's table, and lighted his majesty through a suite of rooms till they came to a private door into the library. Boswell.

n; control. Cowper. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. Addison.

A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic. Her private orchards, walled on every side, To lawless sylvans all access denied. Pope.

A day on which contributions to some public or private charity or fund are solicited promiscuously on the street, and tags given to contributors to wear as an evidence of their having contributed. Such solicitation is now subject to legal restriction in various places.

Covertly; privately; secretly. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold.

One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.

In modern usage, a book or roll in which the lands of private persons or corporations are described by their site, boundaries, number of acres, or the like. [Written also terrar.]

Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons.

One who makes a practice of giving or selling tips, or private hints or information, esp. for use in gambling upon the probable outcome of events, as horse races.

A piece of metal intended for currency, and issued by a private party, usually bearing the name of the issuer, and redeemable in lawful money. Also, a coin issued by government, esp. when its use as lawful money is limited and its intrinsic value is much below its nominal value.

ndividual for beasts driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for passing over the private ground, bridge, ferry, or the like, of another. -- Toll turn (Eng. Law), a toll paid at the return of beasts from market, though they were not sold. Burrill.

s, . . . drag the mind down . . . from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business. Bolingbroke. Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing. W. C. Bryant.

Honorable discourse; eulogy. [Obs.] She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor. Beau. & Fl.

iolating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate. Cowper.

lgated by the church, which occasionally took place in the Middle Ages, putting a stop to private hostilities at or within certain periods.

frey. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. Burke. To truck and higgle for a private good. Emerson.

A private or public teacher.

To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all; as, to unappropriate a monopoly. [R.] Milton.