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Indent   Listen
verb
Indent  v. i.  
1.
To be cut, notched, or dented.
2.
To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
3.
To contract; to bargain or covenant. "To indent and drive bargains with the Almighty."






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"Indent" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the other coal miners never heard the word redemptioner and indent, they were not unlike those pioneer victims of unscrupulous subordinates. Men in bondage like the sharecropper of the Deep South, the Okie of ...
— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas

... place that we looked upon as the last link with civilization: Tortoni's, with its blaze of light, looking-glass and gold paint—its popping corks and hurrying waiters—made a deep and pleasant indent on one's mind, for "to-morrow" meant "the Front" for most of those who ...
— Bullets & Billets • Bruce Bairnsfather

... traveler, finding his way from the salt-pans of Western Louisiana, took a little fishing-craft. There was that fresh purity in the air and the sea which follows the bursting of the elements. The numerous "bays" and keys that indent the shore looked fresher and brighter, and there was that repentant beauty in Nature which aims to soothe us into forgetfulness of its recent angry passions. The white-winged sea-birds flew about, and tall water-fowl stood silently over their shadows ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873. • Various

... same fashion. So it was her order to do. It will set, lady, believe me, as easy as a riding dress, though it be all of the most impenetrable steel. The polish too is such, that neither arrow nor javelin need be feared, they can but touch and glance. Hercules could not indent this surface. Let me reveal to you diverse secret and perfect springs and clasps, the use of which you should be well acquainted with. Yet it differs not so much from that in which you have performed your exercises, but you will readily comprehend ...
— Zenobia - or, The Fall of Palmyra • William Ware



Words linked to "Indent" :   flex, recess, twist, turn, purchase order, deform, UK, space, notch, indention, arrange, bend, hold, oblige, blank space, United Kingdom, cut, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, indentation, bind, order, U.K.



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