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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..

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

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

Indented :: Indented (a.) Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds..

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

Indentedly :: Indentedly (adv.) With indentations.

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

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

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..

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

Neptunium :: Neptunium (n.) A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite..

Indenture :: Indenture (v. t.) To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice..

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

Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service..

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