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Page
, n. [F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination.]
1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
Longfellow.
2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
3. (Print.) The type set up for printing a page.
Page
(pāj), n. [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. paidi`on, dim. of pai^s, paido`s, a boy, servant; perh. akin to L. puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.]
1. A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one.
Bacon.
2. A boy child. [Obs.] Chaucer.
"3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a womans dress from the ground."
4. (Brickmaking.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
5. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
Page
, v. t. To attend (one) as a page. [Obs.] Shak.
Page
, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Paging (?).] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.
-- Webster's unabridged 1913
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