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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..

Dent :: Dent (v. t.) To make a dent upon; to indent.

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

Pit :: Pit (n.) A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation.

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..

Dimple :: Dimple (n.) A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin..

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..

Indenture :: Indenture (n.) A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master..

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

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph..

Pit :: Pit (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox..

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

Indentment :: Indentment (n.) Indenture.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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