NOTE, for ne wote, knew not or could not.

NOTE, n. [L. to know.]

To butt; to push with the horns. [Not used.] Ray.

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. – Hooker.
2. A mark made in a book, indicating something worthy of particular notice.
3. A short remark; a passage or explanation in the margin of a book.
4. A minute, memorandum or short writing intended to assist the memory.
5. Notice; heed. Give order to my servants that they take / No note at all of our being absent hence. – Shak.
6. Reputation; consequence; distinction; as, men of note. – Acts xvi.
7. State of being observed. Small matters, continually in use and note. [Little used.] – Bacon.
8. In music, a character which marks a sound, or the sound itself; as a semibreve, a minim, &c. Notes are marks of sounds in relation to elevation or depression, or to the time of continuing sounds.
9. Tune; voice; harmonious or melodious sounds. The wakeful bird tunes her nocturnal note. – Milton. One common note on either lyre did strike. – Dryden.
10. Abbreviation; symbol. – Baker.
11. A short letter; a billet. – Dryden.
12. Annotation; commentary; as, the notes in Scott's Bible; to write notes on Homer.
13. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt and promising payment; as, a promissory nate; a bank-note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
14. Notes, plur., a writing; a written discourse; applied equally to minutes or heads of a discourse or argument, or to a discourse fully written. The advocate often has notes to assist his memory, and clergymen preach with notes or without them.
15. A diplomatic communication in writing; an official paper sent from one minister or envoy to another. My note of January 10th still remains unanswered. Gallatin.

For ne wote, knew not or could not. – Chaucer. Spenser.

1. To observe; to notice with particular care; to heed; to attend to. No more of that; I have noted it well. Shak. Their manners noted and their states survey'd. Pope.
2. To set down in writing. Note it in a book. Is. xxx.
3. To charge, as with a crime; with of or for. They were both noted of incontinency. [Obs.] Dryden.

1. To butt; to push with the horns.
   
   
   [Prov. Eng.]
2. Know not; knows not.
   
   
   [Obs.]
3. Nut.
   
   
   [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. Need; needful business.
   
   
   [Obs.] Chaucer.
5. 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.

6. To notice with care] to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.
   
   
   Pope.

   No more of that; I have noted it well. Shak.

7. 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.
8. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
   
   

   Every unguarded word . . . was noted down. Maccaulay.

9. 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.

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

    They were both noted of incontinency. Dryden.

11. A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
12. To denote; to designate.
    
    
    Johnson.
13. 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.
14. To annotate.
    
    
    [R.] W. H. Dixon.
15. A short informal letter; a billet.
16. 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.

17. A diplomatic missive or written communication.
18. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
19. A list of items or of charges; an account.
    
    
    [Obs.]

    Here is now the smith's note for shoeing. Shak.

20. A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:
    
    
    (b)
21. Observation; notice; heed.
    
    

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

22. Notification; information; intelligence.
    
    
    [Obs.]

    The king . . . shall have note of this. Shak.

23. State of being under observation.
    
    
    [Obs.]

    Small matters . . . continually in use and in note. Bacon.

24. 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.

25. Stigma; brand; reproach.
    
    
    [Obs.] Shak.

    Note of hand, a promissory note.