Dictionary entry

Note (6)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

They were both noted of incontinency. Dryden.

4. To denote; to designate. Johnson.

5. To annotate. W. H. Dixon.

6. To set down in musical characters.

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