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  1. n. The type set up for printing a page.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. A boy child.
  4. n. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman’s dress from the ground.
  5. n. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
  6. n. Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.
  7. v. t. To attend (one) as a page.
  8. n. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript.
  9. n. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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