note

[ AS. nāt; ne not + wāt wot. See Not, and Wot. ] Know not; knows not. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Nut. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. notu use, profit. ] Need; needful business. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all ! Mrs. Humphry Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations. Felton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A short informal letter; a billet. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A diplomatic missive or written communication. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A list of items or of charges; an account. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Here is now the smith's note for shoeing. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann. W. Pater. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. Observation; notice; heed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give orders to my servants that they take
No note at all of our being absent hence. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. Notification; information; intelligence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The king . . . shall have note of this. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. State of being under observation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Small matters . . . continually in use and in note. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

14. Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

15. Stigma; brand; reproach. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Note of hand, a promissory note. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Noted; p. pr. & vb. n. Noting. ] [ F. noter, L. notare, fr. nota. See Note, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

No more of that; I have noted it well. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address, 1863). [ PJC ]

2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every unguarded word . . . was noted down. Maccaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They were both noted of incontinency. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To denote; to designate. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To annotate. [ R. ] W. H. Dixon. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To set down in musical characters. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A book in which notes or memorandums are written. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A book in which notes of hand are registered. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A case for holding paper money; a wallet.
Syn. -- wallet, billfold. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A genus including the tiger snakes.
Syn. -- genus Notechis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]