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A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.

A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein. Page.

Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. Page.

A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livry. [Colloq.] Dickens.

To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. [Poetic] Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. Wordsworth.

The suppression on striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

The heading of a chapter, section, or page. [U. S.]

), to estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will make, or how large the page must be in order that the copy may make a given number of pages. -- To cast one's self on or upon to yield or submit one's self unreservedly to. as to the mercy of another. -- To cast out, to throy out; to eject, as from a…

The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.

upon poles, or two- wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig. Shak. Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view with scorn two pages and a chair. Pope.

on. Milton. Know well each Ancient's proper character; His fable, subject, scope in every page; Religion, Country, genius of his Age. Pope. A man of . . . thoroughly subservient character. Motley.

A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.

To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.

Stoppage; cessation (of labor).

of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.

ts of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc. [Eng.]

ning the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book. The colophon, or final description, fell into disuse, and . . . the title page had become the principal direct means of identifying the book. De Morgan. The book was uninjured from title page to colophon. Sir W. Sc…

A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.

justable end by means of which the length of the lines, and consequently the width of the page or column, may be determined.

The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.