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] Wilhelm.
Indent
(In*dent"), 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. Shak.
To indent and drive bargains with the Almighty.
South. Indent
(In*dent") n.
1. A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch. Shak.
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. D. Ramsay. A. Hamilton.
4. (Mil.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army. [India] Wilhelm.
Indentation
(In`den*ta"tion) n.
1. The act of indenting or state of being indented.
2. A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.
3. A recess or sharp depression in any surface.
4. (Print.) (a) The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of
the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph. (b) The measure
of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.
Hanging, or Reverse, indentation, indentation of all the lines of a paragraph except the first, which is
a full line.
Indented
(In*dent"ed) a.
1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
2. Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating. Milton. Shak.
3. (Her.) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or
ordinary.
4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant.
5. (Zoöl.) Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds.
Indented line (Fort.), a line with alternate long and short faces, with salient and receding angles, each
face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.
