The act of declining or refusing. / (law) The legal privilege of a party, in certain circumstances, to decline the jurisdiction of a judge before whom the party's case sits. / (law) Recusal.

plural of digital library

The background design in lace-making. / (cooking) Brown residue in pans from cooking meats and vegetables. / (information science) A group of records having shared provenance.

A passerine bird of the antbird family, Thamnophilus stictocephalus.