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Indent v. t. (past & past part. indented; pres. part. indenting)

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

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

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

(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.

(Mil.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores. (India)

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Etymology of 'Indent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Indent" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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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