Word Meanings - INDENTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.

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• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• TOOTHSHELL
  Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.
• TOOTHING
  Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up. Toothing plane, a plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of
• TOOTHBACK
  Any notodontian.
• IMPRESSIONABLE
  Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible. He was too impressionable; he had too much of the temperament of genius. Motley. A pretty face and an impressionable disposition. T. Hook.
• TOOTHBILL
  A peculiar fruit-eating ground pigeon native of the Samoan Islands, and noted for its resemblance, in several characteristics, to the extinct dodo. Its beak is stout and strongly hooked, and the mandible has two or three strong teeth toward the
• IMPRESSION
  The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
• IMPRESSIONISTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.
• TOOTHED
  Having marginal projecting points; dentate. Toothed whale , any whale of the order Denticete. See Denticete. -- Toothed wheel, a wheel with teeth or projections cut or set on its edge or circumference, for transmitting motion by their action on
• TOOTHPICKER
  A toothpick. Shak.
• IMPRESSIONABILITY
  The quality of being impressionable.
• TOOTH
  One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication of food. Note: The hard parts of teeth are principally
• IMPRESSIONLESS
  Having the quality of not being impressed or affected; not susceptible.
• TOOTHPICK
  A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.
• IMPRESSIONIST
  One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism, so called.
• TOOTHDRAWER
  One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.
• IMPRESSIONISM
  The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.
• TOOTHY
  Toothed; with teeth. Croxall.
• INDENTATION
  1. The act of indenting or state of being indented. 2. A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc. 3. A recess or sharp depression in any surface. The act of beginning a line or series
• UNTOOTH
  To take out the teeth of. Cowper.
• SAW-TOOTHED
  Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.
• PICKTOOTH
  A toothpick. Swift.
• COLT'S TOOTH
  See COLT
• EYETOOTH
  A canine tooth of the upper jaw. See Teeth. To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing.
• GAG-TOOTHED
  Having gagteeth.
• LION'S TOOTH
  See LEONTODON
• NEOIMPRESSIONISM; POINTILLISM
  A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat , and carried on by Paul Signac and others. Its method is marked by the laying