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Much good may it do you! -- a familiar salutation or welcome. [Obs.] Master page, good master page, sit. Proface! Shak.

liferous cyst (Med.), a cyst that produces highly- organized or even vascular structures. Paget. -- Pro*lif"er*ous*ly, adv.

To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of; as, to prove a page.

uring; providence; foresight; preparation; management. Chaucer. The ill purveyance of his page. Spenser.

High-spirited; rampageous. [Slang] Dickens.

The right-hand page; -- opposed to verso.

The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet.

strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title-pages and other open matter. It is graded to different sizes, and designated by the name of the type that it matches; as, nonpareil reglet, pica reglet, and the like.…

To give up; to yield; to surrender. I 'll make her render up her page to me. Shak.

A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red.

the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.

anding rigging. -- Running title (Print.), the title of a book or chapter continued from page to page on the upper margin.

A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. [Obs.] Crabb.

Any one of several species of sparoid fishes, especially the common European species (Pagellus centrodontus), the Spanish (P. Oweni), and the black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus); -- called also old wife.

To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page. To set abroach. See Abroach. [Obs.] Shak. -- To set against, to oppose; to set in comparison with, or to oppose to, as an equivalent in exchange; as, to set one thing against another. -- To set agoing, to cause to move. -- To set apart, to…

A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed. [Coloq.] Dickens.

fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume.

Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp. I envy none their pageantry and show. Young.

A letter or figure placed at the bottom of the first page of each sheet of a book or pamphlet, as a direction to the binder in arranging and folding the sheets.

A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc. Sea slug. (Zoöl.) (a) Any nudibranch mollusk. (b) A holothurian. -- Slug caterpillar. Same as Slugworm.