Page (?), n. [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. , dim. of , , 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 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.
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.
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Page, v. t.
To attend (one) as a page.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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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.
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Page, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Paging (?).]
To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuskript; to furnish with folios.
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