Definition of recess

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Recess (n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school..

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Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson..
Inlet :: Inlet (n.) A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands..
Centre :: Centre (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
Recession :: Recession (n.) The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand..
Recessed :: Recessed (a.) Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall..
Recess :: Recess (n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school..
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..
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..
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..
Precessor :: Precessor (n.) A predecessor.
Recess :: Recess (n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion..
Chapel :: Chapel (n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar..
Recess :: Recess (n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science..
Sinus :: Sinus (n.) A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.
Alcove :: Alcove (n.) A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library..
Fenes-tella :: Fenes-tella (n.) Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like..
Bosom :: Bosom (n.) Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth..
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.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides..
Recessional :: Recessional (a.) Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal.
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