01 a. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
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1.
Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
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2.
Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
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3.
Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary.(Her.)
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4.
Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant.
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5.
Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds.(Zool.)
Phrases & compounds
Indented line —
a line with alternate long and short faces, with salient and receding angles, each face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.