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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

Precessor :: Precessor (n.) A predecessor.

Concave :: Concave (n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Haven :: Haven (n.) A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port..

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