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Recessed :: Recessed (a.) Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall..

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

Precessional :: Precessional (a.) Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes..

Nook :: Nook (n.) A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded retreat.

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..

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..

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..

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

Cove :: Cove (n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain..

Overture :: Overture () An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.

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

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..

Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson..

Precessor :: Precessor (n.) A predecessor.

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

Recess :: Recess (v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall..

Center :: Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe..

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

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