indent

To make a dent or depression in, as by a blow or by pressure; dent or dint.

To dent or press in; form as a dent or depression.

A requisition for military stores.

To make notches in resembling teeth; cut into points or jags like a row of teeth; notch; jag; serrate.

Specifically Formerly, to notch the edges of (two copies of a writing, as a deed, covenant, articles of agreement, etc., in which two parties had an interest), as a conventional means of identification and security.

Hence To covenant or bargain for; transfer by covenant; indenture.

In type-setting and writing, to throw or sink inward by a blank space in the margin, as the first line of a paragraph; hence, to begin, or exceptionally to begin and end, with a fixed amount of blank space, whether evenly or unevenly, as lines of poetry or of type specially arranged. See indention.

To move in a zigzag course; wind in and out; double in moving.

To contract; bargain; make a compact.

A cut or notch in the margin, or a recess like a notch; an indentation.