page
page is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 9 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A boy child. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- 2.A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
- 3.(Brickmaking.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
- 4.(Zoöl.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
- 5.To attend (one) as a page. [Obs.] Shak.
- 6.One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. Such was the book from whose pages she sang. Longfellow.
- 7.Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
- 8.(Print.) The type set up for printing a page.
- 9.To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuskript; to furnish with folios.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is a contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground called?
- What is a track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack called?
- What is any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania called?
- What is one side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. Such was the book from whose pages she sang. Longfellow called?
- What is fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history called?
- What is the type set up for printing a page called?
- What is to mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuskript; to furnish with folios called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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