The bearing area of such screw points is, however, so small that the pressure due to the tool cut is liable to cause the screw to indent the gib and thus destroy the adjustment, and on this account a wedge such as shown in Fig.
The edge of the gib here abuts against the back of the top brass, or key brass, as it is sometimes termed, which is objectionable, inasmuch as that it is apt toindent the brass, as shown in Fig.
The faces are made small so that if the blows are properly directed the edge of the face will not meet the boiler plate and indent it.
If the blow is a quick one, it may indeed indent the plate without having any straightening effect.
Furthermore, if A gripped the pipe at or too near to B, it would be apt to indent it.
To try the level of the board, the edge or corner of the plane may be employed; and if the plane is moved back and forth on the corner or edge, it will indent and so point out the high places.
Then the indentgoes to the Practical Joke Department of the Division, and the indent is returned to you, telling you to apply elsewhere.
Another way I manage to fill up my time: Suppose I want some rifle oil I send an indent in marked urgent.
It is true that a heavy mass of iron can through sheer weight bend and indent a narrow band of steel, but it cannot break the steel.
Whom does this desolate-looking pair of brassless stones, side by side record, with indent of man and wife still apparent on them?
It is a high altar-tomb, the cover-stone perfectly plain, with indent for inscription on its edge, but the brass has disappeared.
The massive cover stone is plain, but around its edge is a deeply sunk indent in which was originally the inscription either on brass or painted within it.
The indent of the brass of Archbishop Stafford being greatly frayed and denuded, the original outlines have been restored in the illustration, after a close and careful examination of the stone itself.
Maharaja in Ladakh shall be instructed to use their best endeavours to supply provisions on the indent of the Commissioners at market rates.
The officers in Ladakh and in British territory shall be instructed to use their best endeavours to supply labourers on theindent of the Commissioners at market rates.
Indent with stamped work or carve in ribbon-work, low relief, finish and polish with care, dye black, and then oil or varnish.
The pupil may now, with a pattern-wheel or tracer, indent or mark a line or narrow groove in the outline of the pattern.
Take a wheel or tracer andindent the whole pattern very carefully and rather deeply, not all at one pressure, but by going twice or thrice over the line.
Then with a stamp and hammer indent all the background and the spaces between the edges of the pattern.
Their fault is that they indent and damage the work; a piece of waste wood may be interposed between the work and the upper limb to prevent this, but such a guard is generally in the way and otherwise objectionable.
It is the indent of the spike in the anvil on which the ball of metal was laid when being struck.
The other side bore an indent which is known as the punch-mark.
Place the leather on some level, nonabsorbent surface and with the tool--and a straightedge on the straight lines--indent the leather as shown.
Indent the name and outline of the flag with a small chisel with the face ground flat, about 1/16 in.
A nutpick with a V-shaped point will do if the sharpness is smoothed off by means of a piece of emery paper, so that it will indent without cutting the leather.
Indent the outline of the design with a nutpick or any other pointed tool that will not cut the leather.
To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress; as, indent a smooth surface with a hammer; to indent wax with a stamp.
To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
Whenever there is any indent of any permits to be made or any report to be submitted, it should be done at 11.
Lady Feng was on the very point of saying something, when she espied four managers of the Jung Kuo mansion walk in; all of whom wanted permits to indent for stores.
In blank verse the indention of lines is uniform, the only consideration being to indent the lines so that the general group will be somewhere near the middle of the page.
The first consideration will be to indent the lines so that the general body of the poem is approximately near the middle of the page or column.
A single dash or indent indicates the omission of the preceding heading; a subsequent dash or indent indicates the omission of a subordinate heading, or of a title.
Along this path a thread was cut in the cylinder so as to permit the needle to indent the foil readily as the diaphragm vibrated.
In operating the machine the recording diaphragm was advanced nearly to the cylinder, so that as the diaphragm was vibrated by the voice the needle would prick or indent a wave-like record in the tin-foil that was on the cylinder.
In the same caveat he describes an invention whereby the power to indent on a phonograph cylinder, instead of coming directly from the voice, is caused by power derived from the rotation or movement of the phonogram surface itself.
It is more speculative than the indent business, but the dealing with large quantities which it involves gives the opportunity to buy very cheaply.
The third indent of paragraph 2 shall be without prejudice to the holding and management by the government of Member States of foreign exchange working balances.
A practised clerk can indent on an average seventeen words a minute, which is consequently as many as a skilful writer could transcribe with a pen.
Its lowest stratum carries with it numerous fragments of rock, which, pressed by the weight of the mighty mass, scratch and indent the surfaces over which they move, and sometimes polish them.
After laborious-investigation of everything, down to the lastindent to Bombay for Europe medicines, the Englishman was suffered to depart.
In the midst of it all, neck deep in ledgers and indent forms, stands the many-handed Babu, the steam of the engine whose power extends from Howrah to Ghaziabad.
The indent sent in for materials was a rather formidable one, but the article most in demand was a sheep, which was wanted at the same time by Dick for his Agriculture and Arthur for his Drawing, and also by Mac, who is O.
I was in another building, getting theindent stamped and countersigned.
Corporal make out an indent in quadruplicate for gloves, woollen, knitted, officers, for the use of, pairs one.
