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Incindental :: Incindental (a.) Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses..

Dancette :: Dancette (a.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon..

Escalop :: Escalop (n.) A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop..

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 bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice..

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..

Bay :: Bay (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.

Crenelate :: Crenelate (v. t.) To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf..

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

Dented :: Dented (v. t.) Indented; impressed with little hollows.

Toothing :: Toothing (n.) The act or process of indenting or furnishing with teeth.

Set :: Set (n.) A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set..

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..

File :: File (n.) A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc..

Redented :: Redented (a.) Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.

Waffle :: Waffle (n.) A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.

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

Indenturing :: Indenturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indentur.

Poll :: Poll (v. t.) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See Dee/ poll..

Gimp :: Gimp (v. t.) To notch; to indent; to jag.

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