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Note   /noʊt/   Listen
noun
Note  n.  Nut. (Obs.)


Note  n.  Need; needful business. (Obs.)


Note  n.  
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." "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." "What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all!"
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."
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."
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." "That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann."
11.
Observation; notice; heed. "Give orders to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence."
12.
Notification; information; intelligence. (Obs.) "The king... shall have note of this."
13.
State of being under observation. (Obs.) "Small matters... continually in use and in note."
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."
15.
Stigma; brand; reproach. (Obs.)
Note of hand, a promissory note.


verb
Note  v. t.  To butt; to push with the horns. (Prov. Eng.)


Note  v. t.  (past & past part. noted; pres. part. noting)  
1.
To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to. "No more of that; I have noted it well." "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
2.
To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. "Every unguarded word... was noted down."
3.
To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand. (Obs.) "They were both noted of incontinency."
4.
To denote; to designate.
5.
To annotate. (R.)
6.
To set down in musical characters.
To note a bill or To note a 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.


phrase
Note  phr.  Know not; knows not. (Obs.)





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... magistrate, was supposed to have been murdered. There is, too, the history of Lord Burleigh's house (in Cecil Street) to record; and Northumberland House still stands to recall to us its many noble inmates. On the other side of the Strand we have to note Butcher Row (now pulled down), where the Gunpowder Plot conspirators met; Exeter House, where Lord Burleigh's wily son lived; and, finally, Exeter 'Change, where the poet Gay lay in state. Nor shall we forget Cross's menagerie and the elephant Chunee; nor omit mention of many of the ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... successive generations of men, with perfect indifference to their relative moral conditions, their crimes or wrongs, are all knocked on the head together; and that future adjustment and retribution is a dream." (So p. 72.) In a note to the next page, he informs his readers that if I say that I have left the question of immortality doubtful, it does not affect the argument; for I have admitted "the probability" of there being ...
— Phases of Faith - Passages from the History of My Creed • Francis William Newman
... here a number of days now—I have not even taken the trouble to note how many—but still nothing has been done. They say that half the Powers refuse to treat with him until things are better arranged, and that the Russians have already raised insuperable difficulties because they say the Japanese have the big Manchu in their pocket. ...
— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale
... reminiscence of the metre of The Grammarian's Funeral; and the peculiar blending together of lyrical and dramatic forms, seems essentially characteristic of Mr. Browning's method. Yet there is a distinct personal note running all through the poem, and true originality is to be found rather in the use made of a model than in the rejection of all models and masters. Dans l'art comme dans la nature on est toujours fils de quelqu'un, ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde
... When the gates of Boston were closed in 1775, after the battle of Lexington, he returned to Northampton, and died there of consumption, December 20, 1775. A full account of his life is given in Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit. See also Note 3. ...
— Diary of Anna Green Winslow - A Boston School Girl of 1771 • Anna Green Winslow


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