Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Recessed \Re*cessed"\, a.
   1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall.

   2. Withdrawn; secluded. [R.] ``Comfortably recessed from
      curious impertinents.'' --Miss Edgeworth.

   {Recessed arch} (Arch.), one of a series of arches
      constructed one within another so as to correspond with
      splayed jambs of a doorway, or the like.