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Indented; impressed with little hollows.

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

With indentations.

Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.

Formed like the teeth of a saw; indented.

Indented beneath.

Having three prongs; trident; tridentate; as, a tridented mace. [R.] Quarles.

Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled. -- Un*prec"e*dent*ed*ly, adv.

d which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking. -- Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.

l really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type.

ich is literally room for, as well as its employment, favars this; although it can not be dented that there are examples of its usage in an active sense. Sir W. Hamilton.

An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.

To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf. Crenelated molding (Arch.), a kind of indented molding used in Norman buildings.

Deeply indented; having large teeth; thus, a fess dancetté has only three teeth in the whole width of the escutcheon.

the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented. Burrill.

To make a dent upon; to indent. The houses dented with bullets. Macaulay.

A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. Knight.

nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly. He put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed . . . that it was indeed a very curious show. Burke.

To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines. Parnell.

Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.