Definitions
1.nounA cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
2.nounA stamp; an impression.
3.nounA 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.
4.nounA requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
5.verbTo notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth"to indent the edge of paper"
6.verbTo be cut, notched, or dented.
7.verbTo dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress"indent a smooth surface with a hammer"
8.verbTo cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
9.verbTo enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
10.verbTo engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts."to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant"
11.verbTo begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin."to indent the first line of a paragraph one em"
12.verbTo crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
13.verbTo make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.