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▪ I. indented, ppl. a.1|ɪnˈdɛntɪd|
[f. indent v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Having the edge or margin deeply cut with angular incisions; deeply, strongly, or coarsely serrated along the margin.
c1440Promp. Parv. 261/1 Indentyd, indentatus. 1551Turner Herbal i. A v b, Acanthium is a kynde of thystel indented after the fashion of branke vrsin. Ibid. B j b, One of them hath leues lyk a plain tre, and depely endentyd. 1601Holland Pliny I. 307 All [beasts] that haue teeth indented in like saws, be naturally devourers of flesh. 1628Milton Vac. Exerc. 94 Trent, who, like some earth-born giant, spreads His thirty arms along the indented meads. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xxxiv. 135 Banners of white damask, deeply indented. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 14 She had two Claws..which were indented, or made Saw-wise on the inside. 1715Desaguliers Fires Impr. 127 Plates of Tin..indented along their length. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iv. i. 200 The inlets of their indented coast. 1877F. G. Heath Fern W. 22 Sometimes the leafy portion, though undivided, has its margin beautifully cut in, or indented.
b. Having a serrated or zigzag figure, direction, or course, as a line, wall, moulding, path, etc.; constructed with salient and re-entrant angles, as a battery, parapet, etc.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iv. iii. 113 A green and guilded snake..with indented glides, did slip away. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxiv. 193 A wavering or wrigling motion, whereby they describ'd an indented Line. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 496 The Enemie of Mankind, enclos'd In Serpent..toward Eve Address'd his way, not with indented wave,..but on his reare. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Indented Line, (in Fortif.) a Line running in and out like the Teeth of a Saw: often us'd on the bank of the Counterscarp upon a River or Sea-Coast. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 72 There is one walke all ye length of the Garden..it is indented in and out in Corners. 1802–19Rees Cycl. s.v. Redens, Redens, redans, or redant in Fortification. A kind of work indented in form of the teeth of a saw... It is also called saw work and indented work. 1834–47J. S. Macaulay Field Fortif. (1851) 15 Some authors recommend an indented parapet to obtain fire on the salient angles of works. 1853Stocqueler Milit. Encycl., Indented Line, in fortification, is a serrated line, forming several angles, so that one side defends another. The faces are longer than the flanks. 1875Parker Gloss. Archit. (ed. 4) 158 The other favourite mouldings of the Norman style, are..the Indented [etc.].
2. Her. Of an ordinary, etc.: Having a series of similar indentations or notches.
In the Bk. St. Albans on Heraldry, what is now called ‘embattled’ is represented and described as ‘indentit’, while ‘irrasit’ is used to describe the modern indented figure; in Guillim, however, the description of ‘indented’ shows it to bear the current meaning.
a1400Morte Arth. 2053 A derfe schelde, endenttyd with sable With a dragone engowschede. 1470–85Malory Arthur ix. xxxvi, His sheld..was endented with whyte and black. 1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. D iij, Qvarterit armys..calde indentit for .ij. colowris oon in to an othir by the maner of teth ar indentit. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. (1812) I. lx. 81 His baner..was goules, a sheffe, syluer, thre cheuorns in the sheffe, bordred syluer indented. 1611J. Guillim Heraldry i. v. 18 He beareth Gules a bordure indented Argent. Ibid. This bordure is said to be indented, because it seemeth to be composed (as it were) of teeth. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Indented, a Term in Heraldry, when the Out-Line of a Bordure, Ordinary, &c. is in the Form of the Teeth of a Saw. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xii. 84 Indented, having a serrated border line.
3. Of a legal document: Cut zigzag or wavy at the top or edge; having counterparts severed by a zigzag line; esp. in deed (bill, etc.) indented (as opposed to deed poll) = indenture n. 2. Cf. med.L. chartæ (scripturæ, etc.) indentatæ.
1385(May 15) Award betw. Robert Earl of Fyfe and John of Logy, To the wytnes of the qwylkis al and syndry in thir endentyt lettrys contenyt, tyl ilke parte of the forsayde endenturis I hafe put my Cele. 1424E.E. Wills (1882) 62 Made by dede endented. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VIII. 432 Seales were not putte to wrytnges indentede that the kynge of Ynglonde scholde have all londes of the duchery off Aquitanny. 1440Walsall Rules c. 17 in Gross Gild Merch. (1890) II. 249 The olde Masters of the Gylde shall by byll indented..delyver to the newe Masters alle the money, plate [etc.]. 1494Fabyan Chron. v. cxxxii. 116 He there in yt presence made his testament, yt before he had causyd to be written in .iiii. sondrye skynnes endentyd, to be rad, & than sealyd wt certeyne of theyr sealis, wherof yt one he wyllid to be kept in the tresory of Seynt Denys. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. 20 There is no maner of estates made of free lande by polle dede or dede indented. 1679Bedloe Popish Plot 11 They were both parties to the same Indented Articles. 1706Phillips, Deed Indented, or Indenture, a Writing cut with Dents or Notches on the top or side; which consists of two or more Parts, and wherein 'tis express'd, That the Parties concerned have interchangeably, or severally set their Hands and Seals to every Part of it. 1747Carte Hist. Eng. I. 581 There were three indented copies made. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. xi. 426 Apprentices..are usually bound for a term of years, by deed indented, or indentures, to serve their masters, and be maintained and instructed by them. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 10 Deeds are divided into two sorts; deeds poll, or cut in a straight line; and deeds indented. 1845[see indenture 2].
4. Bound or engaged by an indenture or formal covenant: = indentured 1.
1758Acc. Micmakis & Maracheets 105 He had been an indented servant in New England. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl., Let. to Mrs. Gwyllim 28 Apr., What between his willfullness and his waste, his trumps and his frenzy, I lead the life of an indented slave. 1788Wesley Wks. (1872) VII. 79 Indented servants, who are legally engaged to remain with you for a term of years. 1810Public Notice, Sydney, Australia 21 July (Morris) A ship..with female convicts, whom it is..the Governor's intention to distribute among the settlers, as indented servants. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 24 Sept., These miserable bondsmen—these indented apprentices to the great planter, Death. 1882Fiske in Harper's Mag. Dec. 114/2 There were a few indented white servants.
5. Printing. Of a line of writing or printing: Set in, so as to break the line of the margin. See indent v.1 8.
1840Mrs. Browning Lett. R. H. Horne (1877) I. xxi. 123, I am sorry you do not print the stanzas with the indented lines.
▪ II. indented, ppl. a.2|ɪnˈdɛntɪd|
[f. indent v.2 + -ed1.]
Impressed, struck, or dinted in, so as to make a depression or hollow in a surface.
1635R. Brathwait Arcad. Pr. 123 With an indented pace..[he] addressed himselfe with best speed he could towards Themista. 1834Lytton Pompeii ii. i, Their eyes..fixed on the bloody throat of the one, and the indented talons of the other.
b. Marked with sharp depressions on the surface, as if caused by the dint of some instrument.
Hence inˈdentedly adv., by indentation; in intaglio.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Camaieu, Any kind of gem, whereon figures may be engraven either indentedly, or in relievo. |