Recess
Definition of Recess
Re`cess´ Pronunciation: rė`sĕs´ | n. | 1. | A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. | | 2. | The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy. | | 3. | Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school; as, the children were allowed to play in the school yard during recess. | | 4. | Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc. | | 5. | A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. | | 6. | Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science; the deepest recesses of the mind. | | 7. | (Bot. & Zool.) A sinus. | | v. t. | 1. | To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall. | | n. | 1. | A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. |
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