Recess

Recess

(1): ( n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

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

(3): ( n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

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

(5): ( n.) A sinus.

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

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

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

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