PAGINGS

Noun

pagings

plural of paging

Anagrams

• gapings, gasping

Source: Wiktionary


PAGING

Pa"ging, n.

Definition: The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.

PAGE

Page, n. Etym: [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.]

1. A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doin errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the 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.

2. A boy child. [Obs.] Chaucer.

3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.

4. (Brickmaking.)

Definition: A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

5. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.

Page, v. t.

Definition: To attend (one) as a page. [Obs.] Shak.

Page, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination.]

1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. Such was the book from whose pages she sang. Longfellow.

2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history.

3. (Print.)

Definition: The type set up for printing a page.

Page, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paged; p. pr. & vb. n. Paging.]

Definition: To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuskript; to furnish with folios.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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