INDENT

vi to be cut, notched, or dented.

2. indent ·noun a stamp; an impression.

3. indent ·vi to contract; to bargain or covenant.

4. indent ·vt to make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.

5. indent ·noun a cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

6. indent ·vi to crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

7. indent ·noun a requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.

8. indent ·vt to notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

9. indent ·vt to dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.

10. indent ·noun 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.

11. indent ·vt to bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.

12. indent ·vt 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.