indented

adj

1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth; dented on the surface; jagged; notched; stamped in.

   “He saw the horrible form among the big trees, in the network of creepers in the fantastic outlines of leaves, of the great indented leaves that seemed to be so many enormous hands with big broad palms, with stiff fingers outspread to lay hold of him; […]”

   “The old brown photograph with the photographer’s indented seal in the corner showed the long ranks of the cavalry […]”

2. Having an irregular, uneven; sinuous; undulating.

   “a heavily indented coastline”

   “Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself / And with indented glides did slip away / Into a bush; […]”

   “So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos'd / In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve / Address'd his way, not with indented wave, / Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare, […]”

3. Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated.

   “an indented border or ordinary”

4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured.

   “an indented servant”

5. Notched along the margin with a different colour, like the feathers of some birds.

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of indent