INDENTED

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5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.

2.
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Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating. Milton. Shak.

3.
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Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary.

4.
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Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant.

5.
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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.