INDENTMENT
INDENT'MENT, noun A notch; a cut in the margin of paper or other things.1. A recess or depression in any border.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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INDENTURE
INDENT'URE, noun A writing containing a contract. Indentures are generally duplicates, laid together and indented, so that the two papers or parchments correspond to each other....
INDEPENDENCE
INDEPEND'ENCE, noun [in and dependence.]1. A state of being not dependent; complete exemption from control, or the power of others; as the independence of the Supreme Being.2. A...
INDEPENDENT
INDEPEND'ENT, adjective [in and dependent.]1. Not dependent; not subject to the control of others; not subordinate. God is the only being who is perfectly independent2. Not hold...
INDEPENDENTLY
INDEPEND'ENTLY, adverb Without depending or relying on others; without control.1. Without undue bias or influence; not obsequiously.2. Without connection with other things.
INDEPRECABLE
INDEP'RECABLE, adjective That cannot be deprecated.
INDEPREHENSIBLE
INDEPREHENS'IBLE, adjective That cannot be found out.
INDEPRIVABLE
INDEPRI'VABLE, adjective That cannot be deprived.
INDESCRIBABLE
INDESCRI'BABLE, adjective That cannot be described.
INDESCRIPTIVE
INDESCRIP'TIVE, adjective Not descriptive or containing just description.
INDESERT
INDESERT', noun s as z. [in and desert.] Want of merit or worth.
INDESINENT
INDES'INENT, adjective [Latin in and desino, to cease; de and sino.]Not ceasing; perpetual.
INDESINENTLY
INDES'INENTLY, adverb Without cessation.
INDESTRUCTIBILITY
INDESTRUCTIBIL'ITY, noun [from indestructible.]The quality of resisting decomposition, or of being incapable of destruction.
INDESTRUCTIBLE
INDESTRUC'TIBLE, adjective [in and destructible.] That cannot be destroyed; incapable of decomposition; as a material substance.
INDETERMINABLE
INDETERM'INABLE, adjective [in and determinable.]1. That cannot be determined ascertained or fixed.2. Not to be determined or ended.
INDETERMINATE
INDETERM'INATE, adjective [in and determinate.]1. Not determinate; not settled or fixed; not definite; uncertain; as an indeterminate number of years.2. Not certain; not precise.
INDETERMINATELY
INDETERM'INATELY, adverb Not in any settled manner; indefinitely; not with precise limits; as a space indeterminately large.1. Not with certainty or precision of signification; ...
INDETERMINATENESS
INDETERM'INATENESS, noun Indefiniteness; want of certain limits; want of precision.
INDETERMINATION
INDETERMINA'TION, noun [in and determination.]1. Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind.2. Want of fixed or stated direction.
INDETERMINED
INDETERM'INED, adjective [in and determined.]Undetermined; unsettled; unfixed.
INDEVOTE
INDEVO'TE, adjective Not devoted.
INDEVOTED
INDEVO'TED, adjective Not devoted.
INDEVOTION
INDEVO'TION, noun Want of devotion; absence of devout affections.
INDEVOUT
INDEVOUT, adjective Not devout; not having devout affections.
INDEVOUTLY
INDEVOUT'LY, adverb Without devotion.
INDEX
IN'DEX, nounplural indexes, sometimes indices. [Latin connected with idico, to show; in and dico.]1. That which points out; that which shows or manifests.Tastes are the indexes ...