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n. The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads; called in some cases tipping fee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. équipage, fr. équiper. See Equip. ] 1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Retinue; train; suite. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with equipage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well dressed, well bred.
Well equipaged, is ticket good enough. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. occupying an entire page in a book or paper; as, a full-page ad. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. paidi`on, dim. of pai^s, paido`s, 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 [ 1913 Webster ]

He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boy child. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such was the book from whose pages she sang. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Print.) The type set up for printing a page. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Paged p. pr. & vb. n. Paging ] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To attend (one) as a page. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

3. To call a person on a pager. [ PJC ]

v. t. To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic. [ R. ] “He pageants us.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. “Pageant pomp.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pagent, pagen, originally, a movable scaffold or stage, hence, what was exhibited on it, fr. LL. pagina, akin to pangere to fasten; cf. L. pagina page, leaf, slab, compaginare to join together, compages a joining together, structure. See Pact, Page of a book. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. “A pageant truly played.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To see sad pageants of men's miseries. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day! Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

We love the man, the paltry pageant you. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectively; spectacular quality; splendor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such pageantry be to the people shown. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pageantry of festival. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Pomp; parade; show; display; spectacle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A type of hairdo. [ PJC ]

n. The state of being a page. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small electronic communication device which signals when a telephone call has been received at a base station. Each such device receives radio signals from the base station specifically coded for the individual to whom it is registered; the signal given by the device to the registered user may be a beeping sound, indicating that the user should call the base station to receive a message; or it may display a telephone number to which the user may call directly to return the incoming call, or may display a short message. Such devices are small enough to carry in the pocket or pocketbook, or to clip onto a belt or other part of the clothing. Also called beeper. [ PJC ]

n. Transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe conduit; also, the charge for such transportation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pumpage last year amounted to . . . gallons. Sci. Amer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Ramp, v. ] Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage. [ Prov. or Low ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage. [ Prov. or Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant. [ Prov. or Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In the primitive ages of a rampageous antiquity. Galt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Founding) The enlargement of a mold caused by rapping the pattern. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The contents of a scrip, or wallet. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of seeping; percolation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a fluid that seeps out of a container; as, seepage from a reservoir. [ PJC ]

{ or }, n. Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil. [ Scot. & U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Seepage. [ Scot. & U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land. C. S. Sargent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber. [ Local, U.S. ] The Nation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Sup. ] What may be supped; pottage. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The crop of hay got in a meadow. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The page of a book which contains it title. [ 1913 Webster ]

The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of wrapping. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which wraps; envelope; covering. [ 1913 Webster ]