Category:Page

Page, n. Etym: [f., fr. It. paggio, ll. pagius, fr. Gr. 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 doin errands, waiting On the door, and similar service in households; in the united states, A boy emploed 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 woman's dress from the ground.

4. (brickmaking.)

Defn: a track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are Conveyed to the hack.

5. (zoöl.)

Defn: any one of several species of beautiful south american moths of The genus urania.

Page Page, v. t.

Defn: to attend (one) as a page. [obs.] Shak.

Page Page, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: the type set up for printing a page.

Page Page, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paged; p. pr. & vb. n. Paging.]

Defn: to mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuskript; to Furnish with folios.