Definition of recess

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

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Recess :: Recess (n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides..
Bosomy :: Bosomy (a.) Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.
Recessed :: Recessed (a.) Withdrawn; secluded.
Penetralia :: Penetralia (n. pl.) The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace..
Recess :: Recess (n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc..
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson..
Recess :: Recess (n.) A sinus.
Recess :: Recess (n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion..
Recess :: Recess (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Chapel :: Chapel (n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar..
Creek :: Creek (n.) A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river..
Recessive :: Recessive (a.) Going back; receding.
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..
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..
Rebate :: Rebate (n.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet..
Recessed :: Recessed (imp. & p. p.) of Reces.
Bay Window :: Bay window () A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window..
Overture :: Overture () An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.
Fenes-tella :: Fenes-tella (n.) Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like..
Cove :: Cove (n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore..
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