Definition of indent

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Indent (v. t.) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper..

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Indented :: Indented (imp. & p. p.) of Inden.
Toothing :: Toothing (n.) The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.
Indent :: Indent (n.) A stamp; an impression.
Pit :: Pit (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox..
Indented :: Indented (a.) Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds..
Mush :: Mush (v. t.) To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp..
Follower :: Follower (n.) Among law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed..
Phonograph :: Phonograph (n.) An instrument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the plate in vibration
Dented :: Dented (v. t.) Indented; impressed with little hollows.
Embattled :: Embattled (a.) Having indentations like a battlement.
Crenel :: Crenel (n.) An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement..
Grate :: Grate (v. t.) To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg..
Engrailment :: Engrailment (n.) Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary..
Land :: Land (n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves..
Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice..
Indentured :: Indentured (imp. & p. p.) of Indentur.
Escalop :: Escalop (n.) A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop..
Engrail :: Engrail (v. t.) To indent with small curves. See Engrailed.
Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores..
Heart :: Heart (n.) That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart..
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