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page. Page, n. a boy attendant on a great person, one side of a leaf

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Page (pāj), n. [[F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. παιδίον, dim. of παι̑σ, παιδόσ, a boy, servant; perh. akin to L. puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile.]] 1. 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 employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
He had two pages of honor — on either hand one. Bacon. 2. 2. A boy child. Chaucer.
3. 3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
4. 4. (Brickmaking) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.
5. 5. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania.