Definition of indent

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Indent (n.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army..

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Dibble :: Dibble (v. t.) To make holes or indentations in, as if with a dibble..
Pit :: Pit (n.) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox..
Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service..
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
Escalop :: Escalop (n.) A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop..
Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores..
Indent :: 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..
Retuse :: Retuse (a.) Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf..
Dancette :: Dancette (a.) Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancette has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon..
Catenulate :: Catenulate (a.) Chainlike; -- said both or color marks and of indentations when arranged like the links of a chain, as on shells, etc..
Indent :: Indent (n.) A stamp; an impression.
Indentation :: Indentation (n.) The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems..
Indented :: Indented (a.) Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating..
Centre :: Centre (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
Nick :: Nick (n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
Indent :: Indent (n.) A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch..
Mill :: Mill (n.) To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin..
Notch :: Notch (n.) A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.
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..
Neptunium :: Neptunium (n.) A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite..
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