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indentTo align text some number of spaces to the right of the left margin. See hanging paragraph. indent 1. Chiefly Brit (in foreign trade) an order for foreign merchandise, esp one placed with an agent 2. Chiefly Brit an official order for goods 3. (in the late 18th-century US) a certificate issued by federal and state governments for the principal or interest due on the public debt indent [in′dent] (science and technology) To form a depression by forcing inward. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But they who received the order to fire trembled so that three guards fell by the discharge, and the five remaining balls hissed on to splinter the vault, plow the ground, or indent the pillars of the cavern. Rajah Muda Saffir, caught by the hurricane the preceding night as he had been about to beat across to Borneo, had scurried for shelter within one of the many tiny coves which indent the island's entire coast. In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St. |
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