- Note
- Note Note, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Noted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Noting}.] [F. noter, L. notare, fr. nota. See {Note}, n.]
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1. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to
attend to. --Pope.
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No more of that; I have noted it well. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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). [PJC]
2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. [1913 Webster]
Every unguarded word . . . was noted down. --Maccaulay. [1913 Webster]
3. To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
They were both noted of incontinency. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
4. To denote; to designate. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
5. To annotate. [R.] --W. H. Dixon. [1913 Webster]
6. To set down in musical characters. [1913 Webster]
{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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
