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Recess :: Recess (n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

Precession :: Precession (n.) The act of going before, or forward..

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc..

Recess :: Recess (n.) A sinus.

Recessive :: Recessive (a.) Going back; receding.

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

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

Cove :: Cove (n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain..

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..

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

Sinus :: Sinus (n.) A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.

Rebate :: Rebate (n.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet..

Reliction :: Reliction (n.) A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession..

Accretion :: Accretion (n.) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark..

Center :: Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe..

Presbyopia :: Presbyopia () A defect of vision consequent upon advancing age. It is due to rigidity of the crystalline lens, which produces difficulty of accommodation and recession of the near point of vision, so that objects very near the eyes can not be seen distinctly without the use of convex glasses. Called also presbytia..

Receipt :: Receipt (n.) Hence, a recess; a retired place..

Bay :: Bay (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.

Relicted :: Relicted (a.) Left uncovered, as land by recession of water..

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