An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
INDENTURE
indentation, indention, indent, indenture
(noun) the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
indenture
(noun) a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
indenture
(noun) formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt
indentation, indenture
(noun) a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)
indenture, indent
(verb) bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant; “an indentured servant”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
indenture (plural indentures)
(legal) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).
(legal) A document, written as duplicates separated by indentations, specifying such a contract.
An indentation.
Verb
indenture (third-person singular simple present indentures, present participle indenturing, simple past and past participle indentured)
To bind a person under such a contract.
To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow.
Synonyms
• pact
• agreement
Anagrams
• interdune
Source: Wiktionary
In*den"ture, n. Etym: [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)
Definition: 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.
Note: Indentures were originally duplicates, laid together and intended 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.
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.
In*den"ture, v. i.
Definition: To run or wind in and out; to be cut or notched; to indent. Heywood.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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