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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.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

Precessor :: Precessor (n.) A predecessor.

Counterbore :: Counterbore (n.) A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth..

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..

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

Recess :: Recess (n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides..

Presbyopia :: Presbyopia () A defect of vision consequent upon advancing age. It is due to rigidity of the crystalline lens, which produces difficulty of accommodation and recession of the near point of vision, so that objects very near the eyes can not be seen distinctly without the use of convex glasses. Called also presbytia..

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

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..

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

Pan :: Pan (n.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge..

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

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

Sinus :: Sinus (n.) A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.

Recess :: Recess (n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion..

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..

Reliction :: Reliction (n.) A leaving dry; a recession of the sea or other water, leaving dry land; land left uncovered by such recession..

Recessed :: Recessed (a.) Withdrawn; secluded.

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..

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