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