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. (Mus.) (a) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed
upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence: (b) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune. (c) A key
of the piano or organ.
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.] Shak.
Note of hand, a promissory note.
Note
(Note) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Noted; p. pr. & vb. n. Noting.] [F. noter, L. notare, fr. nota. See
Note, n.]
1. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to. Pope.
No more of that; I have noted it well.
Shak. 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. Johnson.
5. To annotate. [R.] W. H. Dixon.
6. To set down in musical characters.
