Definition of indent

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Indent (v. t.) To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp..

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Escalop :: Escalop (n.) A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop..
Indenture :: Indenture (n.) A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master..
Toothing :: Toothing (n.) The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.
Indent :: Indent (n.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army..
Cremaillere :: Cremaillere (n.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.
Imprint :: Imprint (v. t.) To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
Mill :: Mill (n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin..
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..
Embattled :: Embattled (a.) Having indentations like a battlement.
Bossage :: Bossage (n.) Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings..
Indention :: Indention (n.) Same as Indentation, 4..
Indentation :: Indentation (n.) A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
Indentation :: Indentation (n.) The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph..
Indent :: Indent (v. i.) To contract; to bargain or covenant.
Engrail :: Engrail (v. i.) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
Counterpane :: Counterpane (n.) A duplicate part or copy of an indenture, deed, etc., corresponding with the original; -- now called counterpart..
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
Indent :: Indent (n.) A stamp; an impression.
Indentment :: Indentment (n.) Indenture.
Apprentice :: Apprentice (n.) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him..
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