Indent(n.) A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
Indent(n.) A stamp; an impression.
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.
Indent(n.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
Indent(v. i.) To be cut, notched, or dented.
Indent(v. i.) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
Indent(v. i.) To contract; to bargain or covenant.
Indent(v. t.) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
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(v. t.) To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.
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.
Indent(v. t.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
Indentation(n.) The act of indenting or state of being indented.
Indentation(n.) A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.
Indentation(n.) A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
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(n.) The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.
Indented(a.) Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
Indented(a.) Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
Indented(a.) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary.
Indented(a.) Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant.
Indented(a.) Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds.
Indented(imp. & p. p.) of Indent
Indentedly(adv.) With indentations.
Indenting(n.) Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.
Indenting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indent
Indention(n.) Same as Indentation, 4.
Indentment(n.) Indenture.
Words within indenting