indented
Verb
  1. Simple past tense and past participle of indent
Adjective

indented

  1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
  2. Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 3,
      Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself
      And with indented glides did slip away
      Into a bush;
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 8, lines 494-497,
      So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos’d
      In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve
      Address’d his way, not with indented wave,
      Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare,
    a heavily indented coastline
  3. (heraldry) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.
    an indented border or ordinary
  4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.
    an indented servant
  5. (zoology) Notched along the margin with a different color, like the feathers of some birds.
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