note 
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Note, will be effected and maintained. VYYTY 
Fortnightly Rev., N. 8., XXXIX. 28B. 
j ai<m atnmn- which they have expressed their desire in their Collective 
which a thing may be known ; a sign, stamp, _..*_ _,. 
badge ; symbol ; in logic, a character or quality. 
Patience and perseverance be the proper notes whereby 
God's children are known from counterfeits 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 18;>3), II. il. . 
TW, difference we declvne not as doth the Latines and notation, a character or sign by which a tone 
1111S ttineieilLC we uetiy in., uu _,lnJ ,,,! -anvaeatttorl tn flip PVO. A note 
note 
sale delivered to the buyer by the broker who effects the 
sale. Bought and sold notes are made out usually at the 
same time, the former being delivered to the buyer and 
the latter to the seller. "In American exchanges they 
Greekes be terminationes, but with noates, after the maner 
of the Hebrues, quhilk they cal particles. 
A. Hume, Orthographic (E. E. T. h.), P- 20. 
Some natural notes about her Iwdy, 
Above ten thousand meaner moveables 
Would testify, to enrich mine inventory. 
Shak., Cymbeliue, ii. 2. 28. 
It is a note 
Of upstart greatness, to observe and watch 
For these poor trifles. B. Jonson, Sejanus, v. 8. 
2. Significance ; consequence ; distinction ; rep- 
utation. 
To be adored 
With the continued style and note of gods 
Through all the provinces, were wild ambition. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, i. 2. 
Add not only to the number, but the note of thy genera- 
tion. Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., i. 32. 
Except Lord Robert Kerr, we lost nobody of note. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 19. 
3. Notice; observation; heed. 
Give order to my servants that they take 
No note at all of our being absent hence. 
Shak.. M. of V., v. 1. 120. 
I have made some extracts and borrowed such facts as 
seemed especially worthy of note. 
0. W. Holmes, Emerson, i. 
4. Notice; information; intelligence. 
She that from Naples 
Can have no note, unless the sun were post 
The man i' the moon 'a too slow. 
Shak., Tempest, ii. 1. 248. 
5. A mark on the margin of a book drawing 
attention to something in the text; hence, a 
statement subsidiary to the text of a book elu- 
is recorded and represented to the eye. A note 
consists of from one to three parts the head, the stem or 
tail, and one or more pennants, flag*, or hooks, PR or > f, 
which are often extended from one note to another in the 
form of bars, when two or more notes of the same denomi- 
im OI oars, wiien twu \ji niuic ....* *.~..~...- (ft). \jinjicil, Uliuuittl, i;uiic^iivc, ijuimii^iy 
tion are grouped together, PI _ T' le pitch of the ra tive, demand note. See the qualifying wore 
ne is indicated by the position oT the note on the staff ma tj c no te p see accidental note. Crowned B 
I'lln la llv,\*Iwv. "J ..w ^. u .-. --- 
relative to the clef and the key-signature. (See may, cuj, 
rii/nature, key.) The relative duration of the tone is indi- 
cated by the shape of the note. The system of notes now 
in use includes the following : the breve, \\a, ', the semi- 
breve or whole-note, & ; the minim or half-note, I j 5 " ; the 
crotchet or quarter-note, J *', the quaver or eighth-note, 
J* I* Jj ; the semiquaver or sixteenth-note, 5 
^ ; the demisemiquarer or thirtij-second-note, J 
B; and the hemidemisemiquaeer or sixty-fourth-note, 
fc ^ H 
IB!. Each of these notes may be placed upon any 
* Q 
staff-degree, and thus may signify a tone of any pitch 
whatever. Each of them, also, may have any time-value 
whatever, but when In a particular piece or passage a 
definite time-value is assumed for any one of them, a 
breve is then regarded equal in that piece or passage 
to two semibreves, a semibreve to two minims, a minim 
to two crotchets, etc. In other words, as a metrical 
notation, this system of notes is relative to an assumed 
value for one species, but absolute and definite after such 
an assumption. The pitch-value of a note may be modi- 
fied by an accidental (which see), though the latter may 
also be regarded as changing the staff rather than the note. 
The time-value of a note may be modified by various marks, 
such as a dot after it (as J. or J.), which lengthens the 
notebyonehalfitsoriginalvalue;the(i( 
or critical comment ; an annotation. In print- 
ing: (a) An explanatory statement, or reference to author- 
ity quoted, appended to textual matter and set in smaller 
type than the text. Notes are of several kinds. A cut-in 
note is set In a space left in the text, near the outer mar- 
gin, and ainearly as possible in line with the matter re- 
ferred to. A center-note is placed between two columns, 
as in cross-references in some editions of the Bible. A 
side-note or marginal note is placed in the outer margin of 
the page, parallel with the lines of the text. A. foot-note, 
or bottom note, follows the text at the foot of the page, 
hut does not encroach on the margin, as side-notes do. A 
shoulder-note is one at the upper inner corner of a page. 
In some countries, as China and Japan, all notes are 
placed at the top of the page. (b) One of the marks used 
in punctuating the text : as, the note of admiration or of 
exclamation (!) ; the note of interrogation (?). 
Mr. L 1 was so kind as to accede to my desire that 
he would take notes of all that occurred. 
Poe, Tales, I. 124. 
densed) of a speech, discourse, statement, tes- 
timony, or the like. 8. A list of items ; an in- 
ventory; a catalogue; a bill; an account; a 
reckoning. 
Here is now the smith's note for shoeing and plough- 
irons. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 1. 19. 
Give me a note of all your things, sweet mistress ; 
You shall not lose a hair. 
Middleton (and others), The Widow, v. 1. 
9. A written or printed paper acknowledging 
a debt and promising payment : as, a promis- 
sory note; abank-Hote; a note of hand (that is, 
a signed promise to pay a sum of money); a 
negotiable note. 
He sends me a twenty-pound note every Christmas, and 
that is all I know about him. Disraeli, Sybil, p. 187. 
10. A short letter; a billet. 
She sent a note, the seal an " Elle vous suit," 
The close, "Your Letty, only yours." 
Tennyson, Edwin Morris. 
11. A diplomatic or official communication in 
writing. A note is, in a strict sense, an official commu- 
nication in writing from the Department of Foreign Af- 
fairs (or of State) to a foreign diplomatic representative, 
or vice versa ; it is distinguished from an instruction, sent 
by the department to one of its own diplomatic or con- 
sular representatives abroad, and from a despatch, sent 
by the representative abroad to his own department at 
home. 
lies. [Giving a paper.] My lord hath sent you this note; 
and by me this further charge, that you swerve not from 
the smallest article of it. Shak., M. for M., iv. 2. lot). 
If indeed the Great Powers are really agreed, there can 
be no doubt that the pacification of Eastern Europe, for 
12 A small size of paper used for writing let- ] lave fallen into disuse, and generally no written contracts 
tew or notes.- 18. In M: .() In the staff- ^^^^^ JS'Sjft.'JSftSfi 
transaction on a card or tablet, reporting it at his office, 
where the matter is subsequently compared and confirmed 
pursuant to the rules and customs of each exchange." 
(JSisliee and Simonds, Law of the Produce Exchange.) 
Broker's note. Seebroker.- Character-note. Seedef. 13 
(a). Choral, circular, collective, commercial, deco- 
- - -- alifyirig words. Chro- 
Crowned note, a note 
with a hold or pause upon it, as j* .Dotted note, a note 
whose time-value is increased one half by a dot placed 
after it, as ci . ( <2 J). Double-dotted note, a 
note with two dots after it, making its time-value three 
quarters longer than it would be without the dots.- 
Double note, in musical notation, a note equivalent to two 
whole notes; a breve. Essential note, a note essential 
to a chord : opposed to a passing or decorative note. False 
flash, forwarding note. See the adjectives. Funda- 
mental note. Same as fundamental bass (which see, 
under fundamental). Goldsmiths' notes. See gold- 
smith,!. Grace-note. See grace, 6, and embellishment. 
Harmonic note. See harmonic. Holding note, a note 
or tone maintained in one part while the otner parts pro- 
gress. Identical note. Seeidentical. Imperfect note, 
in medieval mensurable music, a note equal to two short 
ones: opposed to a perfect note, which was equal to three 
short ones. Leading note, master note. See leading!. 
Mensural note. See mensural. Note against note, 
that species of counterpoint in which the cantus flrmus 
and the accompanying voice-parts have tones of the same 
time-value with each other : opposed to two notes against 
one or four notes against one, etc. Note of admiration. 
See admiration Note of hand. See def. a Note Of 
issue. See issue. Note of modulation. See modula- 
tion Note under handt, a receipt. 
There are in it two reasonable faire publiq libraries, 
whence one may borrow a booke to one's chamber, giving 
but a note under hand. Evelyn, Diary, April 21, 1644. 
I 
Open note, (a) A note with an open head, as ii. (b) A 
tone produced from an open string of a stringed instru- 
ment, or a note representing such a tone. Passing note. 
See passing-note. Perfect note, in medieval mensurable 
music, a note equal to three short ones : opposed to im- 
perfect note. Reciting note, in chanting, a note or tone 
upon which several syllables are recited or intoned in 
monotone. Reclaiming note, in Scots law, a notice of 
appeal. Slurred note, a note connected with another 
note by a slur, indicating that both are to be sung to a 
single syllable, or to be played by one motion of the violin- 
how. Stopped note, a tone produced from a stopped 
string of a stringed instrument, or a note representing 
such a tone. Suspended note. See suspension. Tied 
note, a note connected with another note by a tie, indi- 
cating that the time-values of the two are to be added 
together without repetition. Tironian notes. See Tiro- 
nian. To sound a note of warning, to give a caution 
or admonition. 
The note of warning has been sounded more than once. 
The Sation, XLVIII. 344. 
Triple-dotted note, a note with three dots after it, mak- 
ing its time-value seven eighths longer than it would be 
without the dots. White note, (a) Same as open note 
(a), (b) A white digital on the keyboard. =Syn. 5. Annota- 
tion, etc. See remark, n. 
'. noting. 
, < OF. 
noter^F. noter = Sp. Pg. notar = It. notare, < 
L. notare, mark, write, write in cipher or short- 
hand, make remarks or notes on, note, < nota, a 
mark, note: see note^, n. Hence annotation, 
etc., connote, denote."] I. trans. If. To distin- 
guish with a mark; set a mark upon; mark. 
Can we once imagine that Christ's body . . . was ever 
afflicted with malady, or enfeebled with infirmity, or noted 
with deformity? Walsall, Life of Christ (1615), sig. B 2. 
2. To observe carefully; notice particularly. 
And note 30 weel that therfore the element of watir is 
orj J), 
cidating or adding something ; an explanatory w hj c h binds two notes on the same pitch together and 
adds their respective values together ; the pause, hold, or 
fermata ("* or w ), which lengthens the value of the note 
'indefinitely according to the will of the performer ; the 
staccato ( 
ot ^ I), which shortens the actual du- 
ration of the note and' supplies the deficiency by a si- 
lence or rest. (See the various words.) This system is de- 
rived from the medieval systems, though with important 
changes. The Gregorian system of notes, which is still 
in use, is much nearer to the medieval system. It includes 
the following notes: the large, m ,; the long, ^; the 
brew, ; and the semibreve, *or *. These In turn were 
derived from the early neuiues. They were first used mere- 
ly as indications of pitch, their time-value being indefi- 
nite, and dependent wholly upon the text sung to them ; 
but they acquired a definite metrical significance under 
mensurable music. In modern usage they are generally 
treated as metrical. A special development of the ordi- 
nary system of notes is that of character-notes, which are 
varied in shape so as to indicate not only various time- 
values, but also the scale-values or characteristic qualities 
of the tones indicated. Thus, the tonic or do is always 
represented by one shape, the dominant or sol by another, 
6. A minute or memorandum, intended to assist 
the memory, or for after use or reference : as, 
I made a note of the circumstance: generally 
in the plural: as, to take notes of a sermon or 
speech; to speak from notes. 
To conferre all the obseruations and notes of the said 
ships, to the intent it may appeare wherein the notes do 
agree and wherein they dissent. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 22C. . . 
tone, in general or particular : as, the note of a 
bird ; the first note of a song, etc. [This use of the 
word, as applied to musical tones, is very common, but is 
1 pi. A report (verbatim or more or less con- confusing and inaccurate.] 
the subdominant or/u by a third, etc. The system thus . ' 1 r-M\ ,. . r, r pt ami r>r> anted 
aims to secure at once the utility of the staff and of a ref- B SS*^, (1 ~*i\*y, P , and PP; ""!"> 
erence to the abstract scale, (fe) A musical sound or [Early mod. E. also noat ; < ME. 
Vnder lynde in alauude lenede ich a stounde, 
To lithen here laies and here loueliche notes. 
Piers Plowman (C), xi. OS. 
My uncle Toby, sinking his voice a note, resumed the 
discourse as follows. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, v. 21. 
(c) A digital or key of the keyboard: as, the 
white and black notes of the pianoforte. [This 
-- - . i_ . A T_I -i Anu note 3C weel uiai. uienuic me IHBUIVUB v 
usage is also common, but very objectionable.] pu tt e ajen to drawe out from erthe fler and eyr. 
14. Harmonious or melodious so^id; air; 
tune ; voice ; tone. 
Thenne pipede Pees of poetes a note. 
Piers Plouman (C), xxi. 4;.4. 
I made this ditty, and the note to it. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. 
If his worship was here, you dare not say so. Here he 
comes, here he comes. Now you'll change your note. 
Sheridan, The Camp, i. 1. 
15f. A point marked ; a degree. 
Hit is sykerer by southe ther the sonne regneth 
Than in the north by meny notes. 
Piers Plomnan (C), ii. 118. 
Accented note, a note representing an accented or em- 
phatic tone, as on the first beatof a measure. Accessory, 
ornamental, or subsidiary note, a note representing a 
tone supplemental or subordinate to a principal tone, as an 
appoggiatura or one of the subordinate tones of a turn, 
etc. See embellishment. Accidental or chromatic 
note, a note affected by an accidental, and thus repre- 
senting a tone foreign to the tonality of a piece. Ac- 
commodation, adjunct, allotment note. See the 
qualifying words Approved note. See approi'el. 
Banker's note. See bankers. Bath note, a writing-pa- 
per measuring unfolded 8 by 14 inches. Black note, (a) 
A note with a solid head, as J . (6) A black digital on the 
keyboard. Bought note, a written memorandum of a 
Book of Quinte Essence (ed. Furnivall), p. 13. 
One special Virtue may be noted in him, that he was 
not noted for any special Vice. Baker, Chronicles, p. 61. 
You are to note that we Anglers all love one another. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 22. 
Let us first note how wide-spread is the presence of the 
family-cluster, considered as a component of the political 
society. H. Spencer, Prin. of SocioL, 611. 
3. To set down in writing; make a memoran- 
dum of. 
To see a letter ill written [composed], and worse noted 
I penned], neither is it to be taken in good parte, neither 
may we leaue to murmur thereat. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 87. 
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a 
book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and 
ever. ' ~ :1 xxx - s - 
Every unguarded word uttered by him was noted down. 
Macaulay. 
4. To set down in musical characters ; furnish 
with musical notes. 
The noted and illuminated leaves of [an antiphoner). 
Rock, Church of our Fathers, ii. 202. 
5. To furnish with marginal notes; annotate. 
6. To denote; point out: indicate. 
