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To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.

A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc. Dryden. Closet sin, sin commited in privacy. Bp. Hall.

A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.

A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess. Up to the fiery concave towering hight. Milton.

The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others.

The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of Column.

or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.

A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore. Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks. Holland.

A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river. Each creek and cavern of the dangerous shore. Cowper. They discovered a certain creek, with a shore. Acts xxvii. 39.

ension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep. Shadowing squadrons deep. Milton. Safely in harbor Is the king's ship in the deep nook. Shak.

To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess. "Do but encave yourself." Shak.

Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like.

The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.

st in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. [Written also geat and git.] Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate. -- Gate channel. See Gate, 5. -- Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. -- Gate money, entrance money for admission to an inclosure. -- Gate t…

A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.

A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port. What shipping and what lading's in our haven. Shak. Their haven under the hill. Tennyson.

pier of stone or brick made behind the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or recess to receive the ends of the gates. -- Hollow root. (Bot.) See Moschatel. -- Hollow square. See Square. -- Hollow ware, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.

A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch. Shak.

A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.