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Recess [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; as the recess of the tides.

2. A withdrawing from public business or notice; retreat; retirement.

3. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.

4. And every neighboring grove sacred to soft recess and gentle love.

5. Departure.

6. Place of retirement or secrecy; private abode.

7. This happy place, our sweet recess

8. State of retirement; as lords in close recess

9. In the recess of the jury, they are to consider their evidence.

10. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; as, the house of representatives had a recess of half an hour.

11. Privacy; seclusion from the world or from company.

12. Good verse recess and solitude requires.

13. Secret or abstruse part; as the difficulties and recesses of science.

14. A withdrawing from any point; removal to a distance.

15. An abstract or registry of the resolutions of the imperial diet. [Not in use.]

16. The retiring of the shore of the sea or of a lake from the general line of the shore, forming a bay.

Recess [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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.

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.

7. A sinus.

8. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

Recess [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.

Recessed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.

2. Withdrawn; secluded.

Recessed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Recessing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Recession [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of withdrawing, retiring or retreating.

2. The act of receding from a claim, or of relaxing a demand.

3. A cession or granting back; as the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.

Recession [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.

2. The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.

Recessional [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal.

Recessive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Going back; receding.