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or damage; to insure. The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out. Sir W. Temple.

penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott.

The quality of being indemonstrable.

Incapable of being demonstrated. -- In`de*mon"stra*ble*ness, n.

The act of naturalizing; endenization. [R.] Evelyn.

To naturalize. [R.]

To invest with the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [R.] Words indenizened, and commonly used as English. B. Jonson.

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

The act of indenting or state of being indented.

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

With indentations.

Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.

Same as Indentation, 4.

Indenture. [Obs.]

The act of indenting, or state of being indented.

The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope.…

ited States, a holiday, the 4th of July, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on that day in 1776.

Independence. "Give me," I cried (enough for me), "My bread, and independency!" Pope.

ject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent. A dry, but independent crust. Cowper.

Independency; the church system of Independents. Bp. Gauden.