Indent
- n. A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
- v. t. To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
- v. t. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
- v. t. To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.
- v. t. 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.
- v. t. To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
- v. i. To be cut, notched, or dented.
- v. i. To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
- v. i. To contract; to bargain or covenant.
- n. A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
- 1n. 1 A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
- 1v. t. 1 To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.