RECESS

noun a sinus.

2. recess ·vt to make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.

3. recess ·noun the state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

4. recess ·noun a place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.

5. recess ·noun a decree of the imperial diet of the old german empire.

6. recess ·noun secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.

7. recess ·noun part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, ·etc.

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

9. recess ·noun remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.