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

Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores..

Center :: Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe..

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc..

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..

Indented :: Indented (a.) Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant..

Crenelation :: Crenelation (n.) The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure..

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) The act of indenting or state of being indented.

Indented :: Indented (a.) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary..

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

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..

Engrail :: Engrail (v. i.) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention..

Centre :: Centre (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.

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..

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..

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..

Indenting :: Indenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inden.

Tripartite :: Tripartite (v. i.) Having three corresponding parts or copies; as, to make indentures tripartite..

Heteromerous :: Heteromerous (a.) Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous..

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