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A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the
recess of the tides. |
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The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy. |
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Remission or suspension of business or procedure;
intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school. |
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Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an
alcove, niche, etc. |
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A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. |
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Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses
of science. |
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A sinus. |
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To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall. |
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A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. |