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Chapel :: Chapel (n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar..

Concave :: Concave (n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.

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

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

Recession :: Recession (n.) The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand..

Recess :: Recess (n.) A sinus.

Grotto :: Grotto (n.) A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment..

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

Haven :: Haven (n.) A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port..

Fireplace :: Fireplace (n.) The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built..

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

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) A recess or sharp depression in any surface.

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..

Break :: Break (v. t.) A projection or recess from the face of a building.

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..

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

Acinus :: Acinus (n.) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland..

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..

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

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