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noun

Page n.

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 or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United States Congress "He had two pages of honor on either hand one."

A boy child. (Obs.)

A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.

(Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

(Zool.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.

Page n.

One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. "Such was the book from whose pages she sang."

Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.

(Print.) The type set up for printing a page.

verb

page v. t.

To attend (one) as a page. (Obs.)

To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc.

To call a person on a pager.

Page v. t. (past & past part. paged; pres. part. paging) To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.

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Etymology of 'Page'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Page" Quotes from Famous Books

... affirming by their very attitude a supremacy of spirit which no preponderance of power can overshadow. Face to face through all his history man has stood with Nature, and to each generation she has opened some new page of her inexhaustible story. Beginning in the hardest toil for the most material rewards, this fellowship has steadily added one province of knowledge and intimacy after another, until it has become inclusive of the most delicate and hidden recesses of character as well ...

— Under the Trees and Elsewhere • Hamilton Wright Mabie

... threatening it, then there is nothing for it but that the merciful discipline, which this Psalmist goes on to tell us he had to pass through by reason of his fall, shall be brought to bear upon him. The writer gives us a page of his own autobiography. 'In my security I said, I shall never be moved.' 'Lord! by Thy favour Thou hast made my mountain to stand strong. Thou didst hide Thy face.' What about the security then? What about 'I shall never be moved' then? 'I was troubled. I cried to Thee, O Lord!'—and ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... a three volume one from those of many other writers; and moreover one must take into account the ingenuity of French publishers, who manage to have the type spread out over the largest possible amount of white paper. The system of putting little in a page, and diminishing that little by the interpolation of huge and apparently objectless blank spaces, has reached its height in Paris; and, although an imposition on the public, it perhaps renders a book lighter ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various

... relatives gave wing to an imagination that was not wont to soar. Today, however, inspiration was lacking. On opening the drawer of the first desk he came to, he found a letter half begun which had evidently been thrust there suddenly and forgotten. Across the top of the page was written: ...

— The Honorable Percival • Alice Hegan Rice

... affidavit, that, one night long after everyone in the house to his knowledge was in bed, he "see from his room above the stables, a light a-shining on the Thames, and the figures of one or more a passing and a repassing across the blind." More than this, a new page-boy declared that, on a certain evening, before he had been told there was anything strange about the house, he heard the door of the passage leading from the library into the side-road slam violently, and looking to see who had gone out by that unused ...

— The Uninhabited House • Mrs. J. H. Riddell

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