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 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.
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.
Note , n. [AS. notu use, profit.]
Need; needful business.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
Note , n. Nut. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Note (?). [AS. nāt; ne not + wāt wot.
See Not, and Wot.]
Know not; knows not. [Obs.]
Note (?), v. t. [AS. hnītan to strike against, imp. hnāt.]
To butt; to push with the
horns. [Prov. Eng.]
Hear it pronounced