A small closet or enclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study.
Hence, a partially partitioned space for studying or reading, often in a library.
A square-headed arrow; a quarrel.
An inner room or nuptial chamber.
The receptacle of a flower; a torus.
A thallus.
Either of two large, ovoid structures of grey matter within the forebrain that relay sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex.