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Indent [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Incisure; a cut or notch in the margin of any thing, or a recess like a notch.

2. A stamp.

3. A certificate or indented 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 [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To contract; to bargain or covenant. [From the practice of using indented writings or counterparts.]

Indent [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To notch; to jag; to cut any margin into points or inequalities, like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

2. The margins--are indented.

3. To bind out by indentures or contract; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.

Indent [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

2. A stamp; an impression.

3. 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.

4. A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.

Indent [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To be cut, notched, or dented.

2. To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

3. To contract; to bargain or covenant.

Indent [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

2. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.

3. To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.

4. 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.

5. To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.

Indentation [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. INDENTA'TION

2. INDENT'ED, participle passive Cut in the edge into points, like teeth.

3. Bound out by indented writings; as an indented apprentice or servant.

4. Bound out by writings, or covenants in writing. [The practice of indenting writings is in some places discontinued, but the term remains in use.]

Indentation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of indenting or state of being indented.

2. A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.

3. A recess or sharp depression in any surface.

4. 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.

5. The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.

Indented [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.

2. Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.

3. Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary.

4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant.

5. Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds.

Indented [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Indentedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

With indentations.

Indenting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Indenture.

Indenting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Cutting into notches.

2. Binding out by covenants in writing.

Indenting [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.

Indenting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Indention [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Indentation, 4.

Indentment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A notch; a cut in the margin of paper or other things.

2. A recess or depression in any border.

Indentment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Indenture.

Indenture [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A writing containing a contract. Indentures are generally duplicates, laid together and indented, so that the two papers or parchments correspond to each other. But indenting is often neglected, while the writings or counterparts retain the name of indentures.

Indenture [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To indent; to bind by indentures; as, to indenture an apprentice.

Indenture [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of indenting, or state of being indented.

2. 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 [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.

Indenture [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.

2. To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.

Indentured [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Indenturing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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