Definition of indent

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Indent (n.) A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt..

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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
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..
Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores..
Indent :: Indent (v. i.) To be cut, notched, or dented..
Imprint :: Imprint (v. t.) To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
Mush :: Mush (v. t.) To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp..
Indent :: Indent (n.) A stamp; an impression.
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..
Notch :: Notch (v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick..
Waffle :: Waffle (n.) A soft indented cake cooked in a waffle iron.
Indenting :: Indenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inden.
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.
Indenture :: Indenture (v. t.) To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow..
Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp..
Indent :: Indent (n.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army..
Grate :: Grate (v. t.) To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg..
Embattled :: Embattled (a.) Having indentations like a battlement.
Indent :: Indent (v. i.) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
Neptunium :: Neptunium (n.) A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite..
Escalop :: Escalop (n.) A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop..
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