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.
A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
Verb
To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
To be cut, notched, or dented.
To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.
To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.
To engage (someone), originally by means of indented contracts.
To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or lesser distance from the margin. See indentation, and indention. Normal indent pushes in a line or paragraph. "Hanging indent" pulls the line out into the margin.
To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag.
To make an order upon; to draw upon, as for military stores.
Partly from Middle English indenten ("to dent in"), equivalent to in- + dent (see dent); partly from Middle English indenten, endenten, from Old French endenter, from en- + dent, from Latin dēns.
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