Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 31

Indenizened (imp. & p. p.) of Indenizen

Indenizening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indenizen

Indenizen (v. t.) To invest with the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize.

Indented (imp. & p. p.) of Indent

Indenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indent

Indent (v. t.) To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.

Indent (v. t.) To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.

Indent (v. t.) To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.

Indent (v. t.) To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention.

Indent (v. t.) To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.

Indent (v. i.) To be cut, notched, or dented.

Indent (v. i.) To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.

Indent (v. i.) To contract; to bargain or covenant.

Indent (n.) A cut or notch in the man gin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

Indent (n.) A stamp; an impression.

Indent (n.) 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.

Indent (n.) A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.

Indentation (n.) The act of indenting or state of being indented.

Indentation (n.) A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.

Indentation (n.) A recess or sharp depression in any surface.

Indentation (n.) The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.

Indentation (n.) The measure of the distance; as, an indentation of one em, or of two ems.

Indented (a.) Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.

Indented (a.) Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.

Indented (a.) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary.

Indented (a.) Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant.

Indented (a.) Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds.

Indentedly (adv.) With indentations.

Indenting (n.) Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.

Indention (n.) Same as Indentation, 4.

Indentment (n.) Indenture.

Indenture (n.) The act of indenting, or state of being indented.

Indenture (n.) A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.

Indentured (imp. & p. p.) of Indenture

Indenturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indenture

Indenture (v. t.) To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.

Indenture (v. t.) To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.

Indenture (v. i.) To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent.

Independence (n.) The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference.

Independence (n.) Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.

Independency (n.) Independence.

Independency (n.) Doctrine and polity of the Independents.

Independent (a.) Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.

Independent (a.) Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property.

Independent (a.) Not subject to bias or influence; not obsequious; self-directing; as, a man of an independent mind.

Independent (a.) Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner.

Independent (a.) Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.

Independent (a.) Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents.

Independent (a.) Not dependent upon another quantity in respect to value or rate of variation; -- said of quantities or functions.

Independent (a.) Not bound by party; exercising a free choice in voting with either or any party.

Independent (n.) One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.

Independent (n.) One who does not acknowledge an obligation to support a party's candidate under all circumstances; one who exercises liberty in voting.

Independentism (n.) Independency; the church system of Independents.

Independently (adv.) In an independent manner; without control.

Indeposable (a.) Incapable of being deposed.

Indepravate (a.) Undepraved.

Indeprecable (a.) Incapable or undeserving of being deprecated.

Indeprehensible (a.) Incapable of being found out.

Indeprivable (a.) Incapable of being deprived, or of being taken away.

Indescribable (a.) Incapable of being described.

Indescriptive (a.) Not descriptive.

Indesert (n.) Ill desert.

Indesinent (a.) Not ceasing; perpetual.

Indesirable (a.) Undesirable.

Indestructibility (n.) The quality of being indestructible.

Indestructible (a.) Not destructible; incapable of decomposition or of being destroyed.

Indeterminable (a.) Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited.

Indeterminable (n.) An indeterminable thing or quantity.

Indeterminate (a.) Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.

Indetermination (n.) Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind.

Indetermination (n.) Want of fixed or stated direction.

Indetermined (a.) Undetermined.

Indevirginate (a.) Not devirginate.

Indevote (a.) Not devoted.

Indevotion (n.) Want of devotion; impiety; irreligion.

Indevout (a.) Not devout.

Indew (v. t.) To indue.

Indexes (pl. ) of Index

Indices (pl. ) of Index

Index (n.) That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.

Index (n.) That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist.

Index (n.) A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; -- usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume.

Index (n.) A prologue indicating what follows.

Index (n.) The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger.

Index (n.) The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent.

indices (pl. ) of Index

Indexed (imp. & p. p.) of Index

Indexing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Index

Index (v. t.) To provide with an index or table of references; to put into an index; as, to index a book, or its contents.

Indexer (n.) One who makes an index.

Indexical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.

Indexically (adv.) In the manner of an index.

Indexterity (n.) Want of dexterity or readiness, especially in the use of the hands; clumsiness; awkwardness.

India (n.) A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan.

Indiadem (v. t.) To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.

Indiamen (pl. ) of Indiaman

Indiaman (n.) A large vessel in the India trade.

Indian (a.) Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.

Indian (a.) Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.

Indian (a.) Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.

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