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

Dibble :: Dibble (v. t.) To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble..

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems..

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

Heart :: Heart (n.) That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart..

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc..

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..

Indentation :: Indentation (n.) A recess or sharp depression in any surface.

Peen :: Peen (n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation..

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..

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

Crenelation :: Crenelation (n.) The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure..

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..

Indention :: Indention (n.) Same as Indentation, 4..

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..

Land :: Land (n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves..

Punctured :: Punctured (a.) Having the surface covered with minute indentations or dots.

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..

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..

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

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