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Recess :: Recess (n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion..

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..

Recess :: Recess (n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

Bosomy :: Bosomy (a.) Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.

Recessed :: Recessed (a.) Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall..

Encave :: Encave (v. t.) To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess..

Pan :: Pan (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge..

Penetralia :: Penetralia (n. pl.) The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace..

Corona :: Corona (n.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column..

Recession :: Recession (n.) The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign..

Recess :: Recess (n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science..

Overture :: Overture () An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.

Centre :: Centre (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

Counterbore :: Counterbore (n.) A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth..

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..

Rabbet :: Rabbet (n.) A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of any body; especially, one intended to receive another member, so as to break or cover the joint, or more easily to hold the members in place; thus, the groove cut for a panel, for a pane of glass, or for a door, is a rabbet, or rebate..

Recessing :: Recessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reces.

Oriel :: Oriel (n.) A small apartment next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess..

Alcove :: Alcove (n.) Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment.

Recess :: Recess (v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall..

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