Word Direct Answers

What does "recess" mean?

Recess: The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy. In the recess of the jury they are to consider the evidence. Sir M. Hale. Good verse recess and solitude requires. Dryden.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school. The recess of . . . Parliament lasted six weeks. Macaulay.
  2. 3.Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc. A bed which stood in a deep recess. W. Irving.
  3. 4.A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. Departure from his happy place, our sweet Recess, and only consolation left. Milton.
  4. 5.Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science. I. Watts.
  5. 6.(Bot. & Zoöl.) A sinus.
  6. 7.To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
  7. 8.A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire. Brande & C.

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