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 made in a book, indicating something worthy of a 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.6. Reputation; consequence; distinction; as men of note. Acts 16. 7. State of being observed.Small matters, continually in use and note. [Little used.]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 depresion, or to the time of continuing sounds.9. Tune; voice; harmonious or melocious sounds.The wakeful bird tunes her nocturnal note.One common note on either lyre did strike.10. Abbreviation; symbol.11. A short letter; a billet.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 note; a bank-note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.14. Notes, plu. 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.NOTE, v.t. 1. To observe; to notice with particular care; to heed; to attend to.No more of that; I have noted it well.Their manners noted and their states survey'd.2. To set down in writing.Note it in a book. Isaiah 30.3. To charge, as with a crime; with of or for.They were both noted of incontinency.NOTE, v.t. To butt; to push with the horns. [Not used.]
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