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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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"Note" Quotes from Famous Books



... eighties the plan of promoting Jewish emigration from Russia, which had been abandoned with the retirement of Count Ignatyev, was again looked upon favorably by the leading Government circles. The sentiments of the Tzar were expressed in a marginal note which he attached to the report of the governor of Podolia for the year 1888. The passage of the report in which it was pointed out that "the removal of the Jewish proletariat from the monarchy would be very desirable" was supplemented ...
— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow
... of note through this distracted Europe was a Frenchman named Arculf, a Christian bishop. When he had visited the Holy Land and Egypt his ship was caught in a violent storm and driven on to the west coast of Scotland. ...
— A Book of Discovery - The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest - Times to the Finding of the South Pole • Margaret Bertha (M. B.) Synge
... memorandum, to unravel all its sophistry. However, although the Abbate never wanted leisure, he persevered in his silence; yet he often trembled lest some future explorer of manuscripts might be found as sharpsighted as himself. He was so cautious as not even to venture to note down the library where the manuscript was to be found, and to this day no one appears to have fallen on the volume! On the death of Serassi, his papers came to the hands of the Duke of Ceri, a lover of literature; the transcript of the yet undiscovered ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3) - Edited, With Memoir And Notes, By His Son, The Earl Of Beaconsfield • Isaac D'Israeli
... caught another whale of medium size, making us fifty-four barrels of oil. As nothing out of the ordinary course marked the capture, it is unnecessary to do more than allude to it in passing, except to note that the honours were all with Goliath. He happened to be close to the whale when it rose, and immediately got fast. So dexterous and swift were his actions that before any of the other boats could "chip in" he had his fish "fin out," the whole ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen
... recover himself; he was on the point of breaking out—he WOULD have broken out, with anybody else. But my voice (habitually gentle) possesses a high note or so, in emergencies. In this emergency, I felt imperatively called upon to have the highest ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins


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