Indent

in-denf, v. t.~ T 1 cut into points or ineqmlities, like a row of teeth; to notch, jag: to hind out sfln, cube, full; moon, fc5ot; cow, oil by indenture or contract. (Print.) To begin a line or lines at a greater or le distance from the margin. — v. i. To be cut or notched; to crook or turn; to wind in and out. — n. A cut or notch in the margin of anything. — Indentation, ». A notch; a cut in the margin of paper or otlie.- things; a rece or depre ion in any border. (Print.) Act oi, etc.; blank space at the beginning of a line. — Indent'ed, p. a. jagged; notched; bound out by indented wntings.— ladent'ure, -den'chu;-, n. Act of indenting, or state of bf ing indented. (Law.) A mutual agreement in writing between parties, whereof each party had i. formerly a part. — v. t. [indentured (,-chu.d), -tckinu.] To bind by indentures. Inde^, in'deks, n.; E. pi. -dexes, -deks-ez,• L. pi. -dices, -dl-sez. That which points out, indicates, or maniiests: esp., a pointer or hand that directs to anything, as the hour of the day, road to a place, etc.; table for facilitating reference to topics, names, etc., in a book. (Anat.) The lore finger, or pointing finger. (Arith. & Alg.) The figuve or letter which shows the power or root of a "quantity; the exponent. [In this sense, the plural is always indices.]—v. t. [indexed (-dekst), -dexing.] To provide with or form an index or table of reierences.