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What may be supped; pottage. [Obs.] Hooker.

The crop of hay got in a meadow. [Prov. Eng.]

The page of a book which contains it title. The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young.

The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors.

The act of wrapping.

Earlier in order; higher in the same page; hence, in a foregoing page. "That was said above." Dryden.

an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication.

The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development. As the arrest of the air showeth. Bacon.

A stoppage or check. Darwin.

Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book. Bastard ashlar (Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry. -- Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size th…

A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.

In some part or page following.

A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

the bill. -- Blank line (Print.), a vacant space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats. -- Blank tire (Mech.), a tire without a flange. -- Blank tooling. See Blind tooling, under Blind. -- Blank verse. See under Verse. -- Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall.…

The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.

To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff. Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing. Shak.

Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. Shak.

A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.