Note (?), v. t. [AS. hnitan to strike against, imp. hnat.]
To butt; to push with the horns.
[Prov. Eng.]
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Note (?). [AS. nat; ne not + wat wot. See Not, and Wot.]
Know not; knows not.
[Obs.]
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Note, n.
Nut.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
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Note, n. [AS. notu use, profit.]
Need; needful business.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
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Note, n. [F. note, L. nota; akin to noscere, notum, to know. See Know.]
1.
A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession.
Hooker.
She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life -- a tough life and a vigorous.
J. H. Newman.
What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all !
Mrs. Humphry Ward.
2.
A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.
3.
A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations.
Felton.
4.
A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
5. pl.
Hence, a writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis, or the full text of what is to be said; as, to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings.
6.
A short informal letter; a billet.
7.
A diplomatic missive or written communication.
8.
A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
9.
A list of items or of charges; an account.
[Obs.]
Here is now the smith's note for shoeing.
Shak.
10. Mus. (a)
A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:
(b)
A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
(c)
A key of the piano or organ.
The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note.
Milton.
That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann.
W. Pater.
11.
Observation; notice; heed.
Give orders to my servants that they take
No note at all of our being absent hence.
Shak.
12.
Notification; information; intelligence.
[Obs.]
The king . . . shall have note of this.
Shak.
13.
State of being under observation.
[Obs.]
Small matters . . . continually in use and in note.
Bacon.
14.
Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note.
There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold.
Prescott.
15.
Stigma; brand; reproach.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Note of hand, a promissory note.
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Note (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Noted; p. pr. & vb. n. Noting.] [F. noter, L. notare, fr. nota. See Note, n.]
1.
To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.
Pope.
No more of that; I have noted it well.
Shak.
2.
To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
Every unguarded word . . . was noted down.
Maccaulay.
3.
To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand.
[Obs.]
They were both noted of incontinency.
Dryden.
4.
To denote; to designate.
Johnson.
5.
To annotate.
[R.]
W. H. Dixon.
6.
To set down in musical characters.
To note a bill ∨ draft, to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.
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