Available Definitions:
1) a. - Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.
2) a. - Withdrawn; secluded.
3) n. - Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
4) n. - Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
5) n. - A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
6) n. - Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
7) n. - A sinus.
8) v. t. - To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
9) n. - A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.