Definition of indent

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Indent (v. i.) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

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Punctured :: Punctured (a.) Having the surface covered with minute indentations or dots.
Print :: Print (n.) A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow..
Redented :: Redented (a.) Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.
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..
Pit :: Pit (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox..
Retuse :: Retuse (a.) Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf..
Crenelation :: Crenelation (n.) The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure..
Indent :: Indent (n.) A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch..
Engrail :: Engrail (v. i.) To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.
Set :: Set (n.) A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set..
Indented :: Indented (a.) Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds..
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..
Heteromerous :: Heteromerous (a.) Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous..
Tripartite :: Tripartite (v. i.) Having three corresponding parts or copies; as, to make indentures tripartite..
Cremaillere :: Cremaillere (n.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.
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..
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..
Neptunium :: Neptunium (n.) A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite..
Indentation :: Indentation (n.) The act of indenting or state of being indented.
Centre :: Centre (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
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