Recess(n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
Recess(n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
Recess(n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
Recess(n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
Recess(n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
Recess(n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
Recess(n.) A sinus.
Recess(n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
Recess(v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
Recessed(a.) Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.
Recessed(a.) Withdrawn; secluded.
Recessed(imp. & p. p.) of Recess
Recessing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recess
Recession(n.) The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.
Recession(n.) The act of ceding back; restoration; repeated cession; as, the recession of conquered territory to its former sovereign.
Recessive(a.) Going back; receding.
Words within recessiveness