indented

indented

1. simple past tense and past participle of indent

indented (comparative more indented, superlative most indented)

1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.
   • 1896, Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands, Part 5, Chapter 3,

     He saw the horrible form among the big trees, in the network of creepers in the fantastic outlines of leaves, of the great indented leaves that seemed to be so many enormous hands with big broad palms, with stiff fingers outspread to lay hold of him […]

   • 1958, Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana, New York: Pocket Books, 1974 Part 4, Chapter 2, p. 143,

     The old brown photograph with the photographer’s indented seal in the corner showed the long ranks of the cavalry […]

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.

• detinned, intended