Definition of recess

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

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Concave :: Concave (n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.
Recessing :: Recessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reces.
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.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc..
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..
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..
Pan :: Pan (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge..
Recess :: Recess (n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science..
Quirk :: Quirk (n.) A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding..
Cove :: Cove (n.) A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore..
Bosomy :: Bosomy (a.) Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.
Encave :: Encave (v. t.) To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess..
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..
Bedsite :: Bedsite (n.) A recess in a room for a bed.
Boxing :: Boxing (n.) Any boxlike inclosure or recess; a casing.
Recess :: Recess (n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Recessive :: Recessive (a.) Going back; receding.
Recessional :: Recessional (a.) Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal.
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..
Grotto :: Grotto (n.) A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment..
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