Indent

to indent the edge of paper

indent a smooth surface with a hammer

to indent wax with a stamp

The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.

And is this now the Person who is to oblige his Maker? to indent and drive bargains with the Almighty?

1803, John Browne Cutting, “A Succinct History of Jamaica” in Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, pp. xlii-xliii, […] he accidentally met with the commander of a trading vessel bound to Barbadoes, and being actuated by an adventurous spirit, [he] bargained for a passage by indenting himself to serve a planter for four years after his arrival in that island.

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

to indent the first line of a paragraph one em

to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first

Seeing Orlando, it vnlink'd it selfe, And with indented glides, did slip away