Part 5743

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.</def>

<i>D. Ramsay. A. Hamilton.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.</def> <mark>[India]</mark>

<i>Wilhelm.</i>

<h1>Indentation</h1> <Xpage=750>

<hw>In`den*ta"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of indenting or state of being indented.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; <as>as, the <ex>indentations</ex> of a leaf, of the coast, etc.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A recess or sharp depression in any surface.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>The measure of the distance; <as>as, an <ex>indentation</ex> of one em, or of two ems</as>.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>Hanging</col>, &or; <col>Reverse</col>, <col>indentation</col></mcol>, <cd>indentation of all the lines of a paragraph except the first, which is a full line.</cd></cs>

<h1>Indented</h1> <Xpage=750>

<hw>In*dent"ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.</def>

<i>Milton. Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; <as>as, an <ex>indented</ex> border or ordinary</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; <as>as, an <ex>indented</ex> servant</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds.</def>

<cs><col>Indented line</col> <fld>(Fort.)</fld>, <cd>a line with alternate long and short faces, with salient and receding angles, each face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.</cd></cs>

<h1>Indentedly</h1> <Xpage=750>

<hw>In*dent"ed*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>With indentations.</def>

<h1>Indenting</h1> <Xpage=750>

<hw>In*dent"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.</def>

<h1>Indention</h1> <Xpage=750>

<hw>In*den"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Indentation</er>, 4.</def>

<h1>Indentment</h1> <Xpage=750>

<hw>In*dent"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Indenture.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Indenture</h1> <Xpage=750>

<hw>In*den"ture</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>endenture</ets>, OF. <ets>endenture</ets>, LL. <ets>indentura</ets> a deed in duplicate, with indented edges. See the Note below. See <er>Indent</er>.]</ety>