Recess

·noun A Sinus.

II. Recess ·vt To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.

III. Recess ·noun The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

IV. Recess ·noun A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.

V. Recess ·noun A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

VI. Recess ·noun Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.

VII. Recess ·noun Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, ·etc.

VIII. Recess ·noun A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

IX. Recess ·noun Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.