Note — Defs

01 v. t. To butt; to push with the horns.

1.
To butt; to push with the horns.[Prov. Eng.]

02 Know not; knows not.

1.
Know not; knows not.[Obs.]

03 n. Nut.

1.
Nut.[Obs.]

04 n. Need; needful business.

1.
Need; needful business.[Obs.]

05 n. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.

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.” — 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.
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.” — Felton.
4.
A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
5.
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.” — Shak.
10.
A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence:(Mus.)
“The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note.” — Milton.

“That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann.” — W. Pater.
11.
Observation; notice; heed.
“Give orders to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence.” — Shak.
12.
Notification; information; intelligence.[Obs.]
“The king . . . shall have note of this.” — Shak.
13.
State of being under observation.[Obs.]
“Small matters . . . continually in use and in note.” — Bacon.
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.” — Prescott.
15.
Stigma; brand; reproach.[Obs.]

Phrases & compounds

Note of hand — a promissory note.

06 v. t. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.

imp. & p. p. Noted; p. pr. & vb. n. Noting

1.
To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.
“No more of that; I have noted it well.” — Shak.

“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).
2.
To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
“Every unguarded word . . . was noted down.” — Maccaulay.
3.
To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand.[Obs.]
“They were both noted of incontinency.” — Dryden.
4.
To denote; to designate.
5.
To annotate.[R.]
6.
To set down in musical characters.

Phrases & compounds

To note a bill — to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.