Definition of recess

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Recess (n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides..

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Bedsite :: Bedsite (n.) A recess in a room for a bed.
Oriel :: Oriel (n.) A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess..
Chapel :: Chapel (n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar..
Reliction :: Reliction (n.) A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession..
Recess :: Recess (n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science..
Bower :: Bower (n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess..
Vacation :: Vacation (n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
Receipt :: Receipt (n.) Hence, a recess; a retired place..
Recessing :: Recessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reces.
Closet :: Closet (n.) A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc..
Confessional :: Confessional (n.) The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others..
Recess :: Recess (v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall..
Semidome :: Semidome (n.) A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere..
Deep :: Deep (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep..
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson..
Sinus :: Sinus (n.) A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.
Bosomy :: Bosomy (a.) Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.
Recessed :: Recessed (a.) Withdrawn; secluded.
Recess :: Recess (n.) A sinus.
Pan :: Pan (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge..
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