indented

Adjective

indented (comparative more indented, superlative most indented)

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; […]1896, Joseph Conrad, chapter III, in An Outcast of the Islands, London: T. Fisher Unwin […], →OCLC, part V, page 352
   • The old brown photograph with the photographer’s indented seal in the corner showed the long ranks of the cavalry […]1958, Graham Greene, chapter 2, in Our Man in Havana, part 4, New York: Pocket Books, published 1974, page 143

   Synonyms:

   erose, serrated, dentate, dented, dentilated, gimped, gnawed, jagged, jaggy, nicked

2. Having an irregular, uneven border; sinuous; undulating.
   • a heavily indented coastline
   • Seeing Orlando, it [the snake] unlinked itself / And with indented glides did slip away / Into a bush; […]c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
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.