Recess

1. Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
2. A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
3. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
4. A sinus.
5. Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
6. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
7. The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
8. To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
9. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.