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

With indentations.

and 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.

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.

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

Indented; impressed with little hollows.

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

or 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.

apid glide, along the leaning line. Thomson. Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away. Shak.

To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.

One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.

The act of indenting or state of being indented.

The act of indenting, or state of being indented.

, a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters. -- Milling tool, a roller with indented edge or surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.

dian. See Circle, n., 3. -- Mural crown (Rom. Antiq.), a golden crown, or circle of gold indented so as to resemble a battlement, bestowed on him who first mounted the wall of a besieged place, and there lodged a standard.

A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.