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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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. The type set up for printing a page.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuskript; to furnish with folios.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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