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Page   /peɪdʒ/   Listen
noun
Page  n.  
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 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."
2.
A boy child. (Obs.)
3.
A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
4.
(Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
5.
(Zool.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.


Page  n.  
1.
One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. "Such was the book from whose pages she sang."
2.
Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
3.
(Print.) The type set up for printing a page.


verb
page  v. t.  
1.
To attend (one) as a page. (Obs.)
2.
To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc.
3.
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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"Page" Quotes from Famous Books



... wish, to print subscribers' names; so if any of my Ayr friends have subscription bills, they must be sent in to Creech directly. I am getting my phiz done by an eminent engraver, and if it can be ready in time, I will appear in my book, looking like all other fools to my title-page. ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... Amongst all the benefits which God had blessed me withal, next the knowledge of Christ's true religion, I count this the greatest, that it pleased God to call me to be one poor minister in setting forward these excellent gifts of learning," etc. (page 242.) "Truly," says Harrison, "it is a rare thing with us now to hear of a courtier which hath but his own language; and to say how many gentlewomen and ladies there are that, besides sound knowledge of the Greek and Latin tongues, ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume
... described for Amanita mappa. The color of A. mappa is usually said to be straw color, but Fries even says that the color is as in A. phalloides, "now white, now green, now yellow, now dark brown" (Epicrisis, page 6). According to this, Fig. 58 would represent ...
— Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. • George Francis Atkinson
... of a taciturnity that, in the midst of such renowned interlocutors, produced as narcotic a torpor as could have been caused by a dearth the most barren of all human faculties." In truth, it is impossible to look at any page of Madame D'Arblay's later works without finding flowers of rhetoric like these. Nothing in the language of those jargonists at whom Mr. Gosport laughed, nothing in the language of Sir Sedley Clarendel, approaches this ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... of the Bible—only one Gospel and a Book of Psalms—but what he had he studied well. And one page of the Word of God will do a great deal for a man, with the Spirit of God to bring it home to a willing ear and a ...
— Our Little Lady - Six Hundred Years Ago • Emily Sarah Holt


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