indent

A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

A stamp; an impression.

A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.

A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.

To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth

“to indent the edge of paper”

To be cut, notched, or dented.

To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress

“indent a smooth surface with a hammer”

To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.

To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.

To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.

“to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant”

To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.

“to indent the first line of a paragraph one em”

To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.