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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..

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..

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

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

Indenture :: Indenture (v. t.) To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow..

Emargination :: Emargination (n.) The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin..

Indent :: Indent (n.) A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch..

Engrailment :: Engrailment (n.) Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary..

Dolly :: Dolly (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.

Indent :: Indent (n.) A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt..

Embattled :: Embattled (a.) Having indentations like a battlement.

Indent :: Indent (n.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army..

Aim :: Aim (v. i.) To direct the indention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor; -- followed by at, or by an infinitive; as, to aim at distinction; to aim to do well..

Dint :: Dint (n.) The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.

Mush :: Mush (v. t.) To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp..

Dibble :: Dibble (v. t.) To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble..

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..

Catenulate :: Catenulate (a.) Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc..

Subdepartment :: Subdented (a.) Indented beneath.

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) A recess or sharp depression in any surface.

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