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Confessional

The recess seat or inclosed place where a priest sits to hear confessions often a small structure furnished with a

bosomy

Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows

Bedsite

A recess in a room for a bed

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Haven

A bay recess or inlet of the sea or the mouth of a river which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping

Reliction

A leaving dry a recession of the sea or other water leaving dry land land left uncovered by such recession

Reliction

Reliction, the sudden recession of the sea from land. See DERELICT LANDS. A process by which a river or stream shifts its

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appointment of another holder. Acceptance vacates the seat of the member. The office can be granted during a recess, but the statutory power of the Speaker for the issue of a writ during recess to fill up

accretion

by the washing up of sand or soil from the sea or a river or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark) ;also : accession in which the boundaries of land are enlarged

Recessional

Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal

Relicted

Left uncovered as land by recession of water

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