Indentedly
(In*dent"ed*ly), adv. With indentations.
Indenting
(In*dent"ing) n. Indentation; an impression like that made by a tooth.
Indention
(In*den"tion) n. (Print.) Same as Indentation, 4.
Indentment
(In*dent"ment) n. Indenture. [Obs.]
Indenture
(In*den"ture) n. [OE. endenture, OF. endenture, LL. indentura a deed in duplicate, with
indented edges. See the Note below. See Indent.]
1. The act of indenting, or state of being indented.
2. (Law) 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.
The law is the best expositor of the gospel; they are like a pair of indentures: they answer in every part.
C. Leslie. Indentures were originally duplicates, laid together and indented by a notched cut or line, or else written
on the same piece of parchment and separated by a notched line so that the two papers or parchments
corresponded to each other. But indenting has gradually become a mere form, and is often neglected,
while the writings or counterparts retain the name of indentures.
Indenture
(In*den"ture), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indentured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Indenturing.]
1. To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow.
Woty. 2. To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice.
Indenture
(In*den"ture), v. i. To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent. Heywood.
Independence
(In`de*pend"ence) n. [Cf. F. indépendance.]
1. 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.
Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
Pope. 2. Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.
Declaration of Independence (Amer. Hist.), the declaration of the Congress of the Thirteen United
States of America, on the 4th of July, 1776, by which they formally declared that these colonies were
free and independent States, not subject to the government of Great Britain.
Independency
(In`de*pend"en*cy), n.
1. Independence.
"Give me," I cried
"My bread, and independency!"
Pope. 2. (Eccl.) Doctrine and polity of the Independents.
