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Confessional :: Confessional (n.) The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others..

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

Boxing :: Boxing (n.) Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.

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

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

Recess :: Recess (n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc..

Cove :: Cove (n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore..

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

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..

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

Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table..

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

Bedsite :: Bedsite (n.) A recess in a room for a bed.

Bosom :: Bosom (n.) Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth..

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..

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

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

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

Indent :: Indent (n.) A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch..

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

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