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NOTE, for ne wote, knew not or could not. NOTE, noun [Latin 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 16:1. 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, etc. 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, plural 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, verb transitive 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 30:8. 3. To charge, as with a crime; with of or for. They were both noted of incontinency. NOTE, verb transitive To butt; to push with the horns. [Not used.]