IPage 102
- English Word Indent Definition To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
- English Word Indent Definition To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
- English Word Indent Definition To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.
- English Word Indent Definition 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.
- English Word Indent Definition To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
- English Word Indent Definition To be cut, notched, or dented.
- English Word Indent Definition To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
- English Word Indent Definition To contract; to bargain or covenant.
- English Word Indent Definition A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- English Word Indent Definition A stamp; an impression.
- English Word Indent Definition 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.
- English Word Indent Definition A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
- English Word Indentation Definition The act of indenting or state of being indented.
- English Word Indentation Definition A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.
- English Word Indentation Definition A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
- English Word Indentation Definition 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.
- English Word Indentation Definition The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.
- English Word Indented Definition of Indent
- English Word Indented Definition Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
- English Word Indented Definition Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
- English Word Indented Definition Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary.
- English Word Indented Definition Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant.
- English Word Indented Definition Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds.
- English Word Indentedly Definition With indentations.
- English Word Indenting Definition of Indent
- English Word Indenting Definition Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.
- English Word Indention Definition Same as Indentation, 4.
- English Word Indentment Definition Indenture.
- English Word Indenture Definition The act of indenting, or state of being indented.
- English Word Indenture Definition 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.