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A writing paper made in sheets, ordinarily 16 x 13 inches, and folded so as to make a page 13 x 8 inches. See Paper.

A page; an attendant in livery; a lackey. Shak.

A note of reference or comment at the foot of a page.

t. Dryden. I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind. Drydn.

A white or pale patch on a printed page.

An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, or titlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.

ht side of a board, etc. -- Printer's gauge, an instrument to regulate the length of the page. -- Rain gauge, an instrument for measuring the quantity of rain at any given place. -- Salt gauge, or Brine gauge, an instrument or contrivance for indicating the degree of saltness of water from its specific gravity, as i…

brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage. Milton.

A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift. Page.

t Arab. [Slang] -- Gutter stick (Printing), one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.

The line at the head or top of a page.

A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.

An engraved ornament at the head of a chapter, or of a page.

A page; a servant. [Obs.]

ng by characters, pictures, or figures; as, hieroglyphic writing; a hieroglyphic obelisk. Pages no better than blanks to common minds, to his, hieroglyphical of wisest secrets. Prof. Wilson.

pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page. -- His*tor"ic*al*ness, n. -- His*to*ric"i*ty, n. There warriors frowning in historic brass. Pope. Historical painting, that branch of painting which represents the events of history. -- Historical sense, that meaning of a…

A stop or sudden halt; a stoppage; an impediment; a temporary obstruction; an obstacle; as, a hitch in one's progress or utterance; a hitch in the performance.

A fossil footprint; as, the ichnites in the Triassic sandstone. Page.

To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.

erious tyrant; an imperious manner. This imperious man will work us all From princes into pages. Shak. His bold, contemptuous, and imperious spirit soon made him conspicuous. Macaulay.