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An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.

ch party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master. The law is the best expositor of the gospel; they are like a pair of indentures: they answer in every part. C. Leslie.

Cabling. See Cabling. gwilt.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service. To bind over, to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc. -- To bind to, to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. -- To bind up in, to cause…

nsisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings. Gwilt.

To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall. The indentures were canceled. Thackeray. He was unwilling to cancel the interest created through former secret services, by being refractory on this occasion. Sir W. Scott.

A duplicate part or copy of an indenture, deed, etc., corresponding with the original; -- now called counterpart. Read, scribe; give me the counterpane. B. Jonson.

A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented. Burrill.

A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop. "So many jags or escalops." Ray.

g law stationers, a sheet of parchment or paper which is added to the first sheet of an indenture or other deed.

To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.

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

Indenture. [Obs.]

Having three corresponding parts or copies; as, to make indentures tripartite. A. Smith.