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Indent   /ɪndˈɛnt/   Listen
noun
Indent  n.  
1.
A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
2.
A stamp; an impression. (Obs.)
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.
(Mil.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army. (India)


verb
Indent  v. t.  (past & past part. indented; pres. part. indenting)  
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.
(Print.) 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.
(Mil.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores. (India)


Indent  v. i.  
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. "To indent and drive bargains with the Almighty."





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"Indent" Quotes from Famous Books



... is now got on board; the warrant-officers "indent" or sign the proper acknowledgments for their stores at the dockyard; and the purser, having completed the stock of provisions, closes his accounts at the victualling-office. The captain's wife begins to pack ...
— The Lieutenant and Commander - Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from - Fragments of Voyages and Travels • Basil Hall
... and, through an opening, ordered them to fire upon Porthos. But they who received the order to fire trembled so that three guards fell by the discharge, and the five other balls went hissing to splinter the vault, plow the ground, or indent the ...
— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas
... was hardly to indent her life and whose interest in the clean-eyed girl was little more than a leaf upon his consciousness, and whose feet were already feeling the tug of the quicksands of mediocrity which were to suck him out of her ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
... locked the door on Samson's side, and drew the curtain over it. There was a small hole in the curtain, of peculiar shape— moths had been the verdict when Samson first noticed it, and Sita Ram had advised him to indent for some preventive of the pests; which Samson did, and the hole did not grow ...
— Guns of the Gods • Talbot Mundy
... and wealth of brain were spent To bring us hither from our caves and huts, And trace through pathless wilds the deep-worn ruts Of faith and habit, by whose deep indent Prudence may guide if genius be not lent, Genius, not always happy when it shuts Its ears against the plodder's ifs and buts, Hoping in one rash leap to snatch the event. The coursers of the sun, whose hoofs of flame ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell


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