- to form deep recesses in: The sea indents the coast.
- to set in or back from the margin, as the first line of a paragraph.
- to sever (a document drawn up in duplicate) along an irregular line as a means of identification.
- to cut or tear the edge of (copies of a document) in an irregular way.
- to make toothlike notches in; notch.
- to indenture, as an apprentice.
- to draw an order upon.
- to order, as commodities.
- to form a recess.
- to make out an order or requisition in duplicate.
- Obsolete.
- to draw upon a person or thing for something.
- to enter into an agreement by indenture; make a compact.
- a toothlike notch or deep recess; indentation.
- an indention.
- an indenture.
- a certificate issued by a state or the federal government at the close of the Revolutionary War for the principal or interest due on the public debt.
- a requisition for stores.
- to dent; press in so as to form a dent: to indent a pattern on metal.
- to make or form a dent in: The wooden stairs had been indented by horses' hooves.
- a dent.
- to place (written or printed matter, etc) in from the margin, as at the beginning of a paragraph
- to cut or tear (a document, esp a contract or deed in duplicate) so that the irregular lines may be matched to confirm its authenticity
- (in foreign trade) to place an order for (foreign goods), usually through an agent
- to make an order on (a source or supply) or for (something)
- to notch (an edge, border, etc); make jagged
- to bind (an apprentice, etc) by indenture
- (in foreign trade) an order for foreign merchandise, esp one placed with an agent
- an official order for goods
- (in the late 18th-century US) a certificate issued by federal and state governments for the principal or interest due on the public debt
- another word for indenture
- another word for indentation (def. 4)
- to make a dent or depression in
- a dent or depression
