Backstair: alternatives and connections

To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.

Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.

A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or…

Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.

A private path; an obscure way; indirect means.

A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue;…

An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private proper…

Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clan…

A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.

A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.

The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.

To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.

To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- sai…

the act of disclosing something that was secret or private

the act of disclosing something that was secret or private

a secret listener to private conversations

Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of follower…