‖n. sing. & pl. [ L., fr. compingere. See Compact, v. t. ] A system or structure of many parts united. [ 1913 Webster ]

A regular compages of pipes and vessels. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or practice of crimping; money paid to a crimp for shipping or enlisting men. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of dumping loads from carts, especially loads of refuse matter; also, a heap of dumped matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fee paid for the privilege of dumping loads; called in some cases tipping fee. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. équipage, fr. équiper. See Equip. ] 1. Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an army, a body of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Retinue; train; suite. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A carriage of state or of pleasure with all that accompanies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with equipage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well dressed, well bred.
Well equipaged, is ticket good enough. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. occupying an entire page in a book or paper; as, a full-page ad. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. paidi`on, dim. of pai^s, paido`s, a boy, servant; perh. akin to L. 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 doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy or girl employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. Prior to 1960 only boys served as pages in the United States Congress [ 1913 Webster ]

He had two pages of honor -- on either hand one. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A boy child. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such was the book from whose pages she sang. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Print.) The type set up for printing a page. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Paged p. pr. & vb. n. Paging ] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To attend (one) as a page. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call out a person's name in a public place, so as to deliver a message, as in a hospital, restaurant, etc. [ PJC ]

3. To call a person on a pager. [ PJC ]

v. t. To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic. [ R. ] “He pageants us.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. “Pageant pomp.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pagent, pagen, originally, a movable scaffold or stage, hence, what was exhibited on it, fr. LL. pagina, akin to pangere to fasten; cf. L. pagina page, leaf, slab, compaginare to join together, compages a joining together, structure. See Pact, Page of a book. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. “A pageant truly played.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To see sad pageants of men's miseries. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day! Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

We love the man, the paltry pageant you. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectively; spectacular quality; splendor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such pageantry be to the people shown. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pageantry of festival. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Pomp; parade; show; display; spectacle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A type of hairdo. [ PJC ]

n. The state of being a page. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small electronic communication device which signals when a telephone call has been received at a base station. Each such device receives radio signals from the base station specifically coded for the individual to whom it is registered; the signal given by the device to the registered user may be a beeping sound, indicating that the user should call the base station to receive a message; or it may display a telephone number to which the user may call directly to return the incoming call, or may display a short message. Such devices are small enough to carry in the pocket or pocketbook, or to clip onto a belt or other part of the clothing. Also called beeper. [ PJC ]

n. Transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe conduit; also, the charge for such transportation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pumpage last year amounted to . . . gallons. Sci. Amer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Ramp, v. ] Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage. [ Prov. or Low ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To leap or prance about, as an animal; to be violent; to rage. [ Prov. or Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant. [ Prov. or Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In the primitive ages of a rampageous antiquity. Galt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Founding) The enlargement of a mold caused by rapping the pattern. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The contents of a scrip, or wallet. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of seeping; percolation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a fluid that seeps out of a container; as, seepage from a reservoir. [ PJC ]

{ or }, n. Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil. [ Scot. & U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Seepage. [ Scot. & U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of stopping, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Timber in standing trees, -- often sold without the land at a fixed price per tree or per stump, the stumps being counted when the land is cleared. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Only trees above a certain size are allowed to be cut by loggers buying stumpage from the owners of land. C. S. Sargent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber. [ Local, U.S. ] The Nation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Sup. ] What may be supped; pottage. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The crop of hay got in a meadow. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The page of a book which contains it title. [ 1913 Webster ]

The world's all title-page; there's no contents. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of warping; also, a charge per ton made on shipping in some harbors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of wrapping. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which wraps; envelope; covering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. a telephone book or part of a book in which the telephone numbers and often advertisements of business enterprises are listed in numerous sections, organized by the category of the business, the categories themselves being arranged alphabetically; a classified telephone directory. So called because for many years the listing thus organized was printed on yellow paper, to distinguish it from the white pages containing the names of individuals, listed alphabetically by last name. The yellow pages are usually bound together with the white pages in the telephone book distributed by the telephone company to its subscribers. The name was adopted by companies not affiliated with the telephone company, for the classified business directories that they sell. [ PJC ]