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PAGE, n. [Gr. a boy.]

1. A boy attending on a great person, rather for formality or show, than for servitude.

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

2. A boy or man that attends on a legislative body. In Massachusetts,the page is a boy that conveys papers from the members of the house of representatives to the speaker, and from the speaker or clerk to the members.

PAGE, n. [L. pagina.] One side of a leaf of a book.

1. A book or writing or writings; as the page of history.

2. Pages, in the plural, signifies also books or writings; as the sacred pages.

PAGE, v.t. To mark or number the pates of a book or manuscript.

1. To attend, as a page.



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PAGE, n. [Gr. a boy.]

1. A boy attending on a great person, rather for formality or show, than for servitude.

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

2. A boy or man that attends on a legislative body. In Massachusetts,the page is a boy that conveys papers from the members of the house of representatives to the speaker, and from the speaker or clerk to the members.

PAGE, n. [L. pagina.] One side of a leaf of a book.

1. A book or writing or writings; as the page of history.

2. Pages, in the plural, signifies also books or writings; as the sacred pages.

PAGE, v.t. To mark or number the pates of a book or manuscript.

1. To attend, as a page.

PAGE, n.1 [Fr. and Sp. page; It. paggio; Port. pagem; Arm. paich; Sw. poike; Dan. pog; Russ. paj, a boy, a page. The Gr. παις, a boy, is undoubtedly a contracted form of the same word; for παιζω, from παις, forms παιξω, παιχθεις; hence it may be inferred that παις was originally παιχις. The Eng. boy is a contraction of this word; W. baçgen, a boy, a child, from baç, small; Pers. فَيجْ faige, a footman or lackey.]

  1. A boy attending on a great person, rather for formality or show, than for servitude. He had two pages of honor, on either hand one. – Bacon.
  2. A boy or man that attends on a legislative body. In Massachusetts, the page is a boy that conveys papers from the members of the house of representatives to the speaker, and from the speaker or clerk to the members.

PAGE, n.2 [L. pagina; Fr. page.]

  1. One side of a leaf of a book. – Watts.
  2. A book or writing or writings; as, the page of history.
  3. Pages, in the plural, signifies also books or writings; as, the sacred pages.

PAGE, v.t.

  1. To mark or number the pages of a book or manuscript.
  2. To attend, as a page. – Shak.

Page
  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 employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.

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

  2. To attend (one) as a page.

    [Obs.] Shak.
  3. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.

    Such was the book from whose pages she sang. Longfellow.

  4. To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript] to furnish with folios.
  5. A boy child.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.
  6. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
  7. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
  8. The type set up for printing a page.
  9. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  10. Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
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PAGE, noun [Gr. a boy.]

1. A boy attending on a great person, rather for formality or show, than for servitude.

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

2. A boy or man that attends on a legislative body. In Massachusetts, the page is a boy that conveys papers from the members of the house of representatives to the speaker, and from the speaker or clerk to the members.

PAGE, noun [Latin pagina.] One side of a leaf of a book.

1. A book or writing or writings; as the page of history.

2. Pages, in the plural, signifies also books or writings; as the sacred pages.

PAGE, verb transitive To mark or number the pates of a book or manuscript.

1. To attend, as a page

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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pre-existence

PRE-EXIST'ENCE, n. Existence previous to something else.

Wisdom declares her antiquity and pre-existence

to all the works of this earth.

1. Existence of the soul before its union with the body, or before the body is formed; a tenet of eastern sages.

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