Word Meanings - INDENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant. (more info) 1. To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper. 2. To dent;

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To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant. (more info) 1. To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper. 2. To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp. 3. Etym:

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• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• APPRENTICESHIP
  1. The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement. 2. The time an apprentice is serving (sometimes seven years, as from the age of fourteen to twenty-one).
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• NOTCH
  1. A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. Swift. 2. A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.
• INDENTMENT
  Indenture.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• APPRENTICEHOOD
  Apprenticeship.
• NOTCHWEED
  A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium Vulvaria).
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• YOUNG ONE
  A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.
• NOTCHING
  A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions. (more info) 1. The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows. 2. The small hollow, or hollows,
• CONTRACTED
  1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted
• INDENTEDLY
  With indentations.
• INDENTED
  Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary. 4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant. (more info) 1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like
• INDENTION
  See 4
• APPRENTICE
  A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. Blackstone. (more info) of aprentif, fr. apprendare to learn, L. apprendere, equiv. to apprehendere, to take hold of , to
• TEETH
  pl. of Tooth.
• CONTRACTIBLENESS
  Contractibility.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• MANSERVANT
  A male servant.
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• BROMIDE PAPER; BROMID PAPER
  A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.
• CAPPAPER
  See N
• CONSERVANT
  Having the power or quality of conservation.
• OBSERVANTLY
  In an observant manner.