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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: page \page\, 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Page \Page\ (p[=a]j), 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Page \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}.] [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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Page \Page\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paged} (p[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Paging} (p[=a]"j[i^]ng).] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: page n 1: one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains 2: English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962) [syn: {Page}, {Sir Frederick Handley Page}] 3: United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922) [syn: {Page}, {Thomas Nelson Page}] 4: a boy who is employed to run errands [syn: {page}, {pageboy}] 5: a youthful attendant at official functions or ceremonies such as legislative functions and weddings 6: in medieval times a youth acting as a knight's attendant as the first stage in training for knighthood [syn: {page}, {varlet}] v 1: contact, as with a pager or by calling somebody's name over a P.A. system 2: work as a page; "He is paging in Congress this summer" 3: number the pages of a book or manuscript [syn: {foliate}, {paginate}, {page}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: page /paʒ/ page From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: page /paʒə/ page