Category:Note

Note, v. t. Etym: [as. hnitan to strike against, imp. hnat.]

Defn: to butt; to push with the horns. [prov. Eng.]

Note Note. Etym: [as. nat; ne not + wat wot. See not, and wot.]

Defn: know not; knows not. [obs.]

Note Note, n.

Defn: nut. [obs.] Chaucer.

Note Note, n. Etym: [as. notu use, profit.]

Defn: need; needful business. [obs.] Chaucer.

Note Note, n. Etym: [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.

Defn: 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.

Note Note, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Noted; p. pr. & vb. n. Noting.] Etym: [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 or 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.