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..
Engrail :: Engrail (v. i.) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
Bay :: Bay (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
Indented :: Indented (a.) Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant..
Imprint :: Imprint (v. t.) To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
Indentment :: Indentment (n.) Indenture.
Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f
Dimple :: Dimple (n.) A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin..
Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant..
Stamp :: Stamp (v. i.) To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin..
Deed Poll :: Deed poll () A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented..
Grater :: Grater (a.) One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs..
Toothing :: Toothing (n.) The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.
Indenture :: Indenture (v. i.) To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.
Dimple :: Dimple (n.) A slight indentation on any surface.
Impress :: Impress (n.) A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence..
Pit :: Pit (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox..
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..
Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed..
Peen :: Peen (n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation..
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