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Recess
RECESS', n. [L. recessus, from recedo. See Recede.]
1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; as the recess of the tides.
2. A withdrawing from public business or notice; retreat; retirement.
My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.
And every neighboring grove sacred to soft recess and gentle love.
3. Departure.
4. Place of retirement or secrecy; private abode.
This happy place, our sweet recess.
5. State of retirement; as lords in close recess.
In the recess of the jury, they are to consider their evidence.
6. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; as, the house of representatives had a recess of half an hour.
7. Privacy; seclusion from the world or from company.
Good verse recess and solitude requires.
8. Secret or abstruse part; as the difficulties and recesses of science.
9. A withdrawing from any point; removal to a distance.
10. An abstract or registry of the resolutions of the imperial diet. [Not in use.]
11. The retiring of the shore of the sea or of a lake from the general line of the shore, forming a bay.
recess appears in definitions for these words:
Adjournment Alcove Bay Bower Closet Court Cove Creek Deeply Den Dock Elongation Encave Gulf Haven Heart Indent Indentment Inlet Insinuate Nich Niche Nigh Oriol Port Recess Recession Retire Scallop Sideboard Sinus Umbrageous Vacation
Adjournment Alcove Bay Bower Closet Court Cove Creek Deeply Den Dock Elongation Encave Gulf Haven Heart Indent Indentment Inlet Insinuate Nich Niche Nigh Oriol Port Recess Recession Retire Scallop Sideboard Sinus Umbrageous Vacation
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