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Indent

noun

An order for goods to be exported or imported.

The space left between the margin and the start of an indented line. Synonyms: indentation, indention, indenture.

verb

(past & past part. indented; pres. part. indenting)

Set in from the margin.

Cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication.

Make a depression into. Synonym: dent.

Notch the edge of or make jagged.

Bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant. Synonym: indenture.

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... are sweet, but charms are frail: Swift as the short-lived flower they fly, At morn they bloom, at evening die: Though Sickness yet a while forbears, Yet Time destroys what Sickness spares: Now Helen lives alone in fame, And Cleopatra's but a name: Time must indent that heavenly brow, And thou must ...

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