indented
Having the edge or margin cut into points like teeth; zigzag: as, an indented paper; an indented molding. Indented moldings are a common ornamental feature in medieval architecture.
Specifically In entomology: Having one or more angular notches: said of margins and of the edges of color-marks.
Having one or more sharp depressions: as, an indented stria or surface.
In heraldry, like dancetté, but cut with smaller teeth: thus, a fesse indented will have eight or nine points, as opposed to three or four of dancetté. Also
Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
adjectiveHaving an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
adjectiveNotched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.
adjectiveBound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.
adjectiveNotched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds.
adjectivea line with alternate long and short faces, with salient and receding angles, each face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.