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   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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   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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   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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   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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