Recess
RECESS', noun [Latin recessus, from recedo. See Recede.]
1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; as the recess of the tides.
2. A withdrawing from public business or notice; retreat; retirement.
My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered.
And every neighboring grove sacred to soft recess and gentle love.
3. Departure.
4. Place of retirement or secrecy; private abode.
This happy place, our sweet recess
5. State of retirement; as lords in close recess
In the recess of the jury, they are to consider their evidence.
6. Remission or suspension of business or procedure; as, the house of representatives had a recess of half an hour.
7. Privacy; seclusion from the world or from company.
Good verse recess and solitude requires.
8. Secret or abstruse part; as the difficulties and recesses of science.
9. A withdrawing from any point; removal to a distance.
10. An abstract or registry of the resolutions of the imperial diet. [Not in use.]
11. The retiring of the shore of the sea or of a lake from the general line of the shore, forming a bay.