1. Noun
A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
2. Noun
The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
3. Noun
Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
4. Noun
Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
5. Noun
A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
6. Noun
Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
7. Noun
A sinus.
8. Verb
To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
9. Noun
A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
10. Noun
an enclosure that is set back or indented
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