(1):

(n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.

(2):

(n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.

(3):

(n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.

(4):

(n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

(5):

(n.) A sinus.

(6):

(v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.

(7):

(n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.

(8):

(n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.

(9):

(n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.