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2601

annotate
[.] AN'NOTATE, v.i. [L.annoto.] To comment; to make remarks on a writing.

2602

annotation
[.] ANNOTA'TION, n. [L. annotatio, of ad and notatio, a marking, from noto, to mark, or nota, a mark.] [.] 1. A remark, note or commentary on some passage of a book, intended to illustrate its meaning; generally used in the plural, as annotations on the scriptures. [.] 2. ...

2603

annotator
[.] AN'NOTATOR, n. A writer of notes; a commentator; a scholiast; one who writes notes to illustrate the composition of an author.

2604

annotta
[.] ANNOT'TA, n. Orlean, or roucou; a hard dry paste, consisting of the pellicles of the seeds of the bixa orellana, a shrub growing in S. America and the W. Indies. It is moderately hard, of a brown color on the outside, and a dull red within. It is used in dyeing to ...

2660

another
[.] ANOTH'ER, a. [an, or one and other.] [.] 1. Not the same; different; as, we have one form of government; France, another. [.] 2. One more, in addition to a former number, indefinitely; as, grant one request, they will ask another favor, another and another. [.] 3. ...

2661

another-gaines
[.] ANOTH'ER-GAINES, adv. Of another kind. Obs.

2662

another-gates
[.] ANOTH'ER-GATES, adv. Of another sort. Obs.

2663

another-guise
[.] ANOTH'ER-GUISE, a. Of a different kind; different. This is a vulgar word, and usually contracted into other guess.

2664

anotta
[.] ANOT'TA, n. An elegant red color, formed from the pellicles or pulp of the seeds of the bixa, a tree common in South America. This is called also Terra Orleana and Roco. The annotta is made by steeping the seeds for seven or eight days, pounding them to separate ...

2772

anthypnotic
[.] ANTHYPNOT'IC, a. Corrupt orthography. [See Antihypnotic.]

2832

antihypnotic
[.] ANTIHYPNOT'IC, a. [Gr. sleep.] [.] Counteracting sleep; tending to prevent sleep or lethargy. [.] ANTIHYPNOT'IC, n. A medicine that prevents or tends to prevent sleep.

3682

arnot
[.] 'ARNOT, n. A name of the bunium, pignut or earthnut.

3683

arnotto
[.] ARNOT'TO, The Anotta, which see. Also a tree so called.

4937

bank-note
[.] BANK-NOTE, n. A promissory note, issued by a banking company, signed by their President and countersigned by the Cashier,payable to the bearer in gold or silver at the bank, on demand. If payable to order, the note is called a post-note.

6215

binotonous
[.] BINOT'ONOUS, a. [bis and note.] Consisting of two notes; as a binotonous cry.

7245

breastknot
[.] BREAST'KNOT, n. [breast and knot.] A knot of ribins worn on the breast.

8302

cannot
[.] CANNOT, [can and not.] These words are usually united, but perhaps without good reason; canst and not are never united.

9072

cenotaph
[.] CENOTAPH, n. An empty tomb erected in honor of some deceased person; a monument erected to one who is buried elsewhere.

12025

connotate
[.] CONNOTATE, v.t. [L.] To designate with something else; to imply. [Little used.]

12026

connotation
[.] CONNOTATION, n. The act of making known or designating with something; implication of something beside itself inference. [Little used.]

12027

connote
[.] CONNOTE, v.t. [L., to mark. See Note.] To make known together; to imply; to denote or designate; to include. [Little used.]

15159

denotable
[.] DENOTABLE, a. That may be denoted or marked.

15160

denotation
[.] DENOTATION, n. The act of denoting.

15161

denotative
[.] DENOTATIVE, a. Having power to denote.

15162

denote
[.] DENOTE, v.t. [L. To note or mark.] [.] 1. To mark; to signify by a visible sign; to indicate; to express. The character X denotes multiplication. [.] 2. To show; to betoken; to indicate; as, a quick pulse denotes fever.

15163

denoted
[.] DENOTED, pp. Marked; signified, indicated.

15164

denotement
[.] DENOTEMENT, n. Sign; indication.

15165

denoting
[.] DENOTING, ppr. Marking; expressing; indicating.

15997

dignotion
[.] DIGNOTION, n. [L.] Distinguishing mark; distinction. [Not in use.]

22893

forenotice
[.] FORENO'TICE, n. Notice or information of an event before it happens.

26348

hedge-note
[.] HEDGE-NOTE, a. A term of contempt for low writing.

27428

huguenot
[.] HU'GUENOT, n. A name formerly given to a protestant in France.

27429

huguenotism
[.] HU'GUENOTISM, n. The religion of the Huguenots in France.

27741

hypnotic
[.] HYPNOT'IC, a. [Gr. sleep.] Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; narcotic; soporific. [.] HYPNOT'IC, n. A medicine that produces, or tends to produce sleep; an opiate; a narcotic; a soporific.

27931

ignote
[.] IGNO'TE, a. [L. ignotus.] Unknown. [Not used.]

29896

inknot
[.] INKNOT, v.t. innot'. [in and knot.] To bind as with a knot.

31900

knot
[.] KNOT, n. not. [L.nodus; probably connected with knit, but perhaps from swelling or gathering.] [.] 1. The complication of threads made by knitting; a tie; union of cords by interweaving; as a knot difficult to be untied. [.] 2. Any figure, the lines of which frequently ...

31901

knotberry
[.] KNOT'BERRY, n. not'berry. A plant of the genus Rubus.

31902

knotgrass
[.] KNOT'GRASS, n. not'grass. The name of several species of plants, so denominated from the joints of the stem. The common knotgrass is the Polygonum aviculare.

31903

knotless
[.] KNOT'LESS, a. not'less. Free from knots; without knots.

31904

knotted
[.] KNOT'TED, a. not'ted. Full of knots; having knots; as the knotted oak. [.] 1. Having intersecting figures.

31905

knottiness
[.] KNOT'TINESS, n. not'tiness. [from knotty.] [.] 1. Fullness of knots; the quality of having many knots or swellings. [.] 2. Difficulty of solution; intricacy.

31906

knotty
[.] KNOT'TY, a. not'ty. Full of knots; having many knots; as knotty timber. [.] 1. Hard; rugged; as a knotty head. [.] 2. Difficult; intricate; perplexed; as a knotty question or point.

33406

love-knot
[.] LOVE-KNOT, n. luv'-not. A knot so called, used as a token of love or representing mutual affection.

35245

minotaur
[.] MIN'OTAUR, n. [L.. minotaurus; from man, which must have been in early ages a Latin word, and taurus, a bull.] [.] A fabled monster, half man and half bull.

35977

monotheism
[.] MON'OTHEISM, n. [Gr. only, and God.] The doctrine or belief of the existence of one God only.

35978

monothelite
[.] MONOTH'ELITE, n. [Gr. one, and will.] One who holds that Christ had but one will.

35979

monotone
[.] MON'OTONE, n. [See Monotony.] In rhetoric, a sameness of sound, or the utterance of successive syllables on one unvaried key, without inflection or cadence.

35980

monotonic
[.] MONOTON'IC, a. Monotonous. [Little used.]

35981

monotonous
[.] MONOT'ONOUS, a. Continued in the same tone without inflection or cadence; unvaried in tone.

35982

monotonously
[.] MONOT'ONOUSLY, adv. With one uniform tone; without inflection of voice.

35983

monotony
[.] MONOT'ONY, n. [Gr. sole, and sound.] [.] 1. Uniformity of tone or sound; want of inflections of voice in speaking; want of cadence or modulation. [.] 2. Uniformity; sameness. [.] [.] At sea, every thing that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts ...

37372

not
[.] NOT, adv. [See Naught.] [.] 1. A word that expreses negation, denial or refusal; as, he will no go; will you remain? I will not. In the first member of a sentence, it may be followed by nor or neither; as not for a price nor reward; I was not in sfety, neither had ...

37373

notable
[.] NOT'ABLE, a. [L. known; to know.] [.] 1. Remarkable; worthy of notice; memorable; observable; distinguished or noted. [.] [.] They bore two or three charges from the horse with notable courage. [.] [.] Two young men of notable strength. 2 Maccabees. [.] 2. ...

37374

notableness
[.] NOT'ABLENESS, n. [.] 1. Activity; industriousness; care. [Little used.] [.] 2. Remarkableness.

37375

notably
[.] NOT'ABLY, adv. [.] 1. Memorably; remarkably; eminently. [.] 2. With show of consequence or importance.

37376

notarial
[.] NOTA'RIAL, a. [from notary.] [.] 1. Pertaining to a notary; as a notarial seal; notarial evidence or attestation. [.] 2. Done or taken by a notary.

37377

notary
[.] NO'TARY, n. [L. known.] [.] 1. Primarily, a person employed to take notes of contracts, trials and proceedings in courts among the Romans. [.] 2. In modern usage, an officer authorized to attest contracts or writings of any kind, to give them the evidence of authenticity. ...

37378

notation
[.] NOTA'TION, n. [L. to mark.] [.] 1. The act or practice of recording any thing by marks, figures or characters; particularly in arithmetic and algebra, the expressing of numbers and quantities by figures, signs or characters appropriate for the purpose. [.] 2. Meaning; ...

37379

notch
[.] NOTCH, n. [G. to crack or flaw. It seems to be the same word in origin as niche, nick.] [.] 1. A hollow cut in any thing; a nick; an indentation. [.] [.] And on the stick ten equal notches makes. [.] 2. An opening or narrow passge through a mountain or hill. ...

37380

note
[.] NOTE, for ne wote, knew not or could not. [.] NOTE, n. [L. to know.] [.] 1. A mark or token; something by which a thing may be known; a visible sign. [.] [.] They who appertain to the visible church have all the notes of external profession. [.] 2. A mark ...

37381

note-book
[.] NO'TE-BOOK, n. [.] 1. A book in which memorandums are written. [.] 2. A book in which notes of hand are registered.

37382

noted
[.] NO'TED, pp. [.] 1. Set down in writing. [.] 2. Observed; noticed. [.] 3. Remarkable; much known by reputation or reprot; eminent; celebrated; as a noted author; a noted commander; a noted traveler.

37383

notedly
[.] NO'TEDLY, adv. With observation or notice.

37384

notedness
[.] NO'TEDNESS, n. Conspicuousness; eminence; celebrity.

37385

noteless
[.] NO'TELESS, a. Not attracting notice; not conspicuous.

37386

noter
[.] NO'TER, n. One who takes notice; an annotator.

37387

noteworthy
[.] NO'TEWORTHY, a. Worthy of observation or notice.

37388

nothing
[.] NOTH'ING, n. [no and thing.] [.] 1. Not any thing; not any being or existence; a word that denies the existence of any thing; non-entity; opposed to something. The world was created from nothing. [.] 2. Non-existnce; a state of annihilation. [.] 3. Not any thing; ...

37389

nothingness
[.] NOTH'INGNESS, n. [.] 1. Nihility; non-existence. [.] 2. Nothing; a thing of no value.

37390

notice
[.] NO'TICE, n. [.] 1. Observation by the eye or by the other senses. We take notice of objects passing or standing before us; we take notice of the owrds of a speaker; we take notice of a peculiar taste of food, or of the smeel of an orange, and of our peculiar sensations. ...

37391

noticeable
[.] NO'TICEABLE, a. That may be observed; worthy of observation.

37392

noticed
[.] NO'TICED, pp. Observed; seen; remarked; treated with attention.

37393

noticing
[.] NO'TICING, ppr. Observing; seeing; regarding; remarking on; treating with attention.

37394

notification
[.] NOTIFICA'TION, n. [See Notify.] [.] 1. The act of notifying or giving notice; the act of making known, particularly the act of givning official notice or information to the public, or to individuals, corporations, companies or societies, by words, by writing or by ...

37395

notified
[.] NO'TIFIED, pp. [.] 1. Made known; applied to things. This design of the king was notified to the court of Berlin. [.] 2. Informed by words, writing or toher means; applied to persons. The inhabitants of the city have been notified that a meeting is to be held ...

37396

notify
[.] NO'TIFY, v.t. [L. known, and to make.] [.] 1. To make known; to declare; to publish. The laws of God notify to man his will and our duty. [.] 2. To make known by private communication; to give information of. The allied sovereigns have notified the spanish court ...

37397

notifying
[.] NO'TIFYING, ppr. Making known; giving notice to.

37398

notion
[.] NO'TION, n. [L. known; to know.] [.] 1. Conception; mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined. We may have a just notion of power, or false notions respecting spirit. [.] Notion and idea are primarily different; idea being the conception of something ...

37399

notional
[.] NO'TIONAL, a. [.] 1. Imaginary; ideal; existing in idea only; visionary; fantastical. [.] [.] Notional good, by fancy only made. A notional and imaginary thing. [.] 2. Dealing in imaginary things; whimsical; fanciful; as a notional man.

37400

notionality
[.] NOTIONAL'ITY, n. Empty ungrounded opinion. [Not used.]

37401

notionally
[.] NO'TIONALLY, adv. In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality. [.] [.] Two faculties notionally or really distinct.

37402

notionist
[.] NO'TIONIST, n. One who holds to an ungrounded opinion.

37403

notoriety
[.] NOTORI'ETY, n. [See Notorious.] [.] 1. Exposure to public knowledge; the state of being publicly or generally known; as the notoriety of a crime. [.] 2. Public knowledge. [.] [.] They were not subjects in their own nature so exposed to public notoriety.

37404

notorious
[.] NOTO'RIOUS, a. [L. known.] [.] 1. Publicly knwon; manifest to the world; evident; usually, knwon to disadvantage; hence almost always used in all ill sense; as a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice; a man notorious for lewdness or gaming. [.] 2. In a good ...

37405

notoriously
[.] NOTO'RIOUSLY, adv. Publicly; openly; in a manner to be known or manifest.

37406

notoriousness
[.] NOTO'RIOUSNESS, n. The state of being open or known; notoriety.

37407

nott
[.] NOTT, a. Shorn.

37408

notus
[.] NO'TUS, n. [L.] The south wind.

37409

notwheat
[.] NOT'WHEAT, n. [smooth, shorn.] Wheat not bearded.

37410

notwithstanding
[.] NOTWITHSTAND'ING, the participle of withstand, with not prefixed, and signifying not opposing; nevertheless. It retains in all cases its participial signification. For example, "I will surely rend the knigdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant; notwithstanding, ...

38434

orphanotrophy
[.] ORPHANOT'ROPHY, n. [Gr. orphan, and food.] A hospital for orphans.

39709

passing-note
[.] P`ASSING-NOTE, n. In music, a note introduced between two others for the purpose of softening a distance or melodizing a passage.

39980

pedal-note
[.] PED'AL-NOTE, n. In music, a holding note.

42002

post-note
[.] POST-NOTE, n. [post and note.] In commerce, a bank note intended to be transmitted to a distant place by the public mail,and made payable to order. In this it differs from a common bank note, which is payable to the bearer.

42530

prenotion
[.] PRENO'TION, n. [L. proenotio; proe and nosco, to know.] [.] A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge.

43416

prothonotariship
[.] PROTHON'OTARISHIP, n. The office of a prothonotary. [An awkward, harsh word and little used.]

43417

prothonotary
[.] PROTHON'OTARY, n. [Low L.protonotarius; Gr. first, and L. notarius, a scribe.] [.] 1. Originally, the chief notary; and anciently, the title of the principal notaries of the emperors of Constantinople. Hence, [.] 2. In England, an officer in the court of king's ...

49870

shoulder-knot
[.] SHOULDER-KNOT, n. [shoulder and knot.] An ornamental knot of ribin or lace worn on the shoulder; an epaulet.

50807

snot
[.] SNOT, n. Mucus discharged from the nose. [.] SNOT, v.t. To blow the nose.

50808

snotter
[.] SNOT'TER, v.i. To snivel; to sob.

50809

snotty
[.] SNOT'TY, a. [.] 1. Foul with snot. [.] 2. Mean; dirty.

52179

stegnotic
[.] STEGNOTIC, a. [Gr.] Tending to bind or render costive. [.] STEGNOTIC, n. A medicine proper to stop the orifices of the vessels or emunctories of the body, when relaxed or lacerated.

54041

sword-knot
[.] SWORD-KNOT, n. [sword and knot.] A ribin tied to the hilt of a sword.

55822

touch-me-not
[.] TOUCH-ME-NOT, n. A plant of the genus Impatiens, and another of the genus Momordica.

56632

truelove-knot
[.] TRUELOVE-KNOT, n. A knot composed of lines united with many involutions; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagements.

58778

unknot
[.] UNKNOT', v.t. To free from knots; to untie.

58992

unnoted
[.] UNNOTED, a. [.] 1. Not noted; not observed; not heeded; not regarded. [.] 2. Not honored.

58993

unnoticed
[.] UNNO'TICED, a. [.] 1. Not observed; not regarded. [.] 2. Not treated with the usual marks of respect; not kindly and hospitably entertained.

61286

wale-knot
[.] WALE-KNOT, WALL-KNOT, n. A single wale-knot is made by untwisting the ends of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand; then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second, and through the bight of the first. The double ...

61301

wall-knot
[.] WALE-KNOT, WALL-KNOT, n. A single wale-knot is made by untwisting the ends of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand; then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second, and through the bight of the first. The double ...

62511

wood-note
[.] WOOD-NOTE, n. [wood and note.] Wild music. [.] [.] --Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancys child, warble his native wood-notes wild.

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