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  1.                 From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
                    

    Page (pāj), n. [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. παιδίον, dim. of παῖς, παιδός, 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 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

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    He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one.

    -- Bacon.

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    2. A boy child. [Obs.]

    Chaucer.

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

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

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

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  2.                 From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
                    

    page, v. t.

    1. To attend (one) as a page. [Obs.]

    Shak.

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

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    3. To call a person on a {pager}.

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  3.                 From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
                    

    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}.]

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    1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.

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    Such was the book from whose pages she sang.

    -- Longfellow.

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

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

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  4.                 From GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, version 0.54:
                    

    Page, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paged (pājd); p. pr. & vb. n. Paging (pāˈjĭng).] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.

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