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e United States, a boy emploed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one. Bacon.

A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. "A pageant truly played." Shak. To see sad pageants of men's miseries. Spenser.

Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectivelly; spectacular guality; splendor. Such pageantry be to the people shown. Dryden. The pageantry of festival. J. A. Symonds.

The state of being a page.

A system or structure of many parts united. A regular compages of pipes and vessels. Ray.

The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men.

The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter.

ents; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope.

Furnished with equipage. Well dressed, well bred. Well equipaged, is ticket good enough. Cowper.

Transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe conduit; also, the charge for such transportation.

That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps. The pumpage last year amounted to . . . gallons. Sci. Amer.

t or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage. [Prov. or Low.] Dickens.

ed by violence and passion; unruly; rampant. [Prov. or Low] In the primitive ages of a rampageous antiquity. Galt.

The enlargement of a molt caused by rapping the pattern.

The contents of a scrip, or wallet. [Obs.] Shak.

Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil. [Scot. & U. S.]

See Seepage. [Scot. & U.S.]

The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.

, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.

[Local, U.S.] Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land. C. S. Sargent.