Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Indented \In*dent"ed\, a.
   1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like teeth;
      jagged; notched; stamped in; dented on the surface.

   2. Having an uneven, irregular border; sinuous; undulating.
      --Milton. Shak.

   3. (Her.) Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the
      teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary.

   4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an
      indented servant.

   5. (Zo["o]l.) Notched along the margin with a different
      color, as the feathers of some birds.

   {Indented line} (Fort.), a line with alternate long and short
      faces, with salient and receding angles, each face giving
      a flanking fire along the front of the next.