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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Overture :: Overture () An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.
Cove :: Cove (n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain..
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..
Relicted :: Relicted (a.) Left uncovered, as land by recession of water..
Vacation :: Vacation (n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
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..
Nook :: Nook (n.) A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat.
Recess :: Recess (n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science..
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..
Indentation :: Indentation (n.) A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
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Recess :: Recess (n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
Recessed :: Recessed (a.) Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall..
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..
Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson..
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..
Reliction :: Reliction (n.) A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession..
Bosomy :: Bosomy (a.) Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.
Indent :: Indent (n.) A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch..
Grotto :: Grotto (n.) A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment..
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