INDENT

I. verb see: tooth Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to divide (a document) so as to produce sections with irregular edges that can be matched for authentication, to draw up (as a deed) in two or more exactly corresponding copies, to notch the edge of ; make jagged, ~ure , to set (as a line of a paragraph) in from the margin, to order by an ~, intransitive verb to make a formal or express agreement, to form an ~ation, to make out an ~ for something, ~er noun II. noun Date: 15th century 1. ~ure 1, a certificate issued by the United States at the close of the American Revolution for the principal or interest on the public debt, 2. chiefly British an official requisition, a purchase order for goods especially when sent from a foreign country, ~ion , III. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English endenten, from en- + denten to dent Date: 15th century to force inward so as to form a depression, to form a dent in, ~er noun IV. noun Date: 1596 ~ation