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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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— Enamels and Cameos and other Poems • Theophile Gautier

... lady who marched into the middle of the room, with a "How do, Colley?" and, looking over the company's heads as if she did not see them, regarded the four walls with some interest. Like a cat, she seemed to think more of places than of folk. The page obsequiously offered her ...

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... She had many intelligent habits; among others she read the paper—The Morning Post. The other ladies would at times tackle that sheet, but only to read the births, marriages, and deaths on the front page. It was, of course, the old Morning Post that cost threepence, not the brisk coruscating young thing of to-day. "They say," she would open, "that Lord Tweedums is to go ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... from the Treasury. In the case of the second—those which were hired by contract—the officers were appointed by the Customs Board. The captain of the cruiser was paid L50 per annum, the chief mate either L35 or L30, and the crew were each paid L15. But, as we shall see from a later page, the rate of pay was considerably increased some years afterwards. The victualling allowance was at the rate of 9d. per diem for each man on board, and an allowance of 1s. each was made by the lunar month for fire and candle. This last-mentioned allowance was also modified in ...

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