Word Meanings - RECESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be

Additional info about word: RECESS

A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered. Eikon Basilike. 2. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.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. 3. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school. The recess of . . . Parliament lasted six weeks. Macaulay. 4. 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. 5. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion. Departure from his happy place, our sweet Recess, and only consolation left. Milton. 6. Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science. I. Watts.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECESS)

• Bower
• Shady recess
• arbor
• retreat
• alcove
• Corner
• Cavity
• hole
• nook
• recess
• Retirement
• Solitude
• privacy
• departure
• seclusion
• concavity

Related words: (words related to RECESS)

• RECESSED
  1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch , one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• ARBORET
  A small tree or shrub. Spenser. Among thick-woven arborets, and flowers Imbordered on each bank. Milton.
• ARBORICULTURAL
  Pertaining to arboriculture. Loudon.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• ARBORICULTURIST
  One who cultivates trees.
• ARBOR DIANAE
  A precipitation of silver, in a beautiful arborescent form.
• ARBORICOLE
  Tree-inhabiting; -- said of certain birds.
• RECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
• RETIREMENT
  1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
• SHADY
  1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden. 2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. Cast it also that
• ARBOREOUS
  1. Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon. 2. Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy.
• ARBORATOR
  One who plants or who prunes trees. Evelyn.
• ARBOR
  A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower. Sir P. Sidney.
• ARBORETUM
  A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.
• ARBORIFORM
  Treelike in shape.
• ARBORIZATION
  The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite.
• SOLITUDE
  1. state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness. Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Bacon. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face Cowper. 2. Remoteness
• RECESS
  A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• UNHARBOR
  To drive from harbor or shelter.
• PRECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.
• THREE-CORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem. (more info) 1. Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
• HARBOR MASTER
  An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• RECESSION
  The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor.
• SCORNER
  One who scorns; a despiser; a contemner; specifically, a scoffer at religion. "Great scorners of death." Spenser. Superly he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly. Prov. iii. 34.