INDEMNIFICATION. A stipulated compensation for damage done.
INDEMNITY. Amnesty; security against punishment.
INDENTED LINE. In fortification, a connected line of works composed of faces which offer a continued series of alternate salient and re-entering angles. It is conveniently applied on the banks of a river entering a town, and was to be seen on the James river in Virginia, near Richmond, in 1864.
INDENTED PARAPET. One of which the interior slope is indented with a series of vertical cavities, enabling the men stationed within them to fire across the proper front.
INDENTING FOR STORES. An indispensable duty to show that every article has been actually received.
INDENTURES, Pair of. A term for charter-party.
INDEX. The flat bar which carries the nonius scale and index-glass of a quadrant, octant, quintant, or sextant.
INDEX-ERROR. The reading of the verniers of the above-named instruments. It is the correction to be applied to the + or - reading of a vernier when the horizon and index-glasses are parallel.
INDEX-GLASS. A plane speculum, or mirror of quick-silvered glass, which moves with the index, and is designed to reflect the image of the sun or other object upon the horizon glass, whence it is again reflected to the eye of the observer.
INDEX-ROD. A graduated indicator.