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Abbreviation; fymb.ol; raufical character.—Contraft it 
into a narrow compafs by fhort notes and abbreviations. 
Halier on Learning. —A frnall letter : 
A hollow cane within her hand (lie brought} 
But in the concave had inclofed a note. Dryden. 
A written paper.—I cannot get over the prejudice of ta¬ 
king fome little offence at the clergy, for perpetually 
reading their fermons; perhaps my frequent hearing of 
foreigners, who never make ufeof notes, may have added 
to my difguft. Swift V—A paper given in confeflion of a 
debt.—His note will go farther than my bond. Arbuthnof s 
J. Hull. —Explanatory annotation.—The beft writers have 
been perplexed with notes, and obfeured with illuftrations. 
Felton on the C/af/icks.— This put him upon a clofe appli¬ 
cation to his (Indies. He kept much at home, and writ 
notes upon Homer and Plautus. Law. 
TV; NOTE, v. a. [noto, Lat. noter, French.] To mark ; 
to diftinguifh. This (fays Mr. Todd,) is the primary 
meaning, but is overpaffed by Dr. Johnfon.—Can we 
once imagine that thrift's body, fo miraculoufly made, 
now clad with incorruption and inriched with glory, was 
jever afflifted with malady, or enfeebled with infirmity, or 
noted with deformity? Walfall's Life of Chrijt, 1615.— • 
Toobferve; to remark; to heed; to attend; to take 
notice of.—If much you note him, you (hall offend him. 
Shakefpeare's Macbeth. —Some things may in pafling be 
fitly noted. Hammond. 
Wand’ring from clime to clime obfervant (fray’d, 
Their manners noted, and their ftates furvey’d. Pope. 
To deliver; to fet down.—Saint Auguftin, fpeaking of 
devout men, noteth how they daily frequented the church, 
how attentive ear they gave unto the leffons and chapters 
read. Hooker. — Note it in a book, that it may be forever 
and ever. Lfa. xxx. 8.—To charge with a crime : with of 
or for. — Sine vefte Dianam agrees better with Livia, who 
had the fame of chaftity, than with either of the Julia’s, 
who were both noted of incontinency. Dryden. —To fet 
down the notes of a tune. 
To Note a Dill, is when a public notary goes as a 
witnefs, or takes notice, that a merchant will not accept 
or pay it. 
To NOTE, v.a. [hniran, Sax. liniota, Icel.] To pufh, 
or ftrike, with the horns, as a bull or ram. Ray and GroJ'e. 
NO'TE-BOOK, f A book in which notes and memo¬ 
randums are fet down: 
Cafiius all his faults obferv’d ; 
Set in a note-book, leqrn’dand conn’d by rote, 
To caft into my teeth. Shakefpeare's Jul. Ccef. 
NG'TE-WORTHY, adj. Deferving notice.—Two are 
efpecially note-worthy in their fteeples, being fmall but 
exceeding high towers. Sir T. Herbert's Trav. 
Think on thy Protheus when thou haply feeft 
Some rare note-worthy objeft in thy travel. Shakefpeare. 
NOT'EBACH, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Smaland : forty-three miles north-weft of Calmar. 
NO'TED, part. adj. Remarkable; eminent; celebrated. 
.—A noted chymift procured a privilege, that none but he 
fhould vend a fpirit. Boyle. —Juftinian’s laws, if we may 
believe a noted author, have not the force of laws in France 
or Holland. Baker. 
NO'TEDLY, adv. With obfervation ; with notice.— 
Do you remember what you faid of the duke ? Mod 
notedly, fir. Shaliefpeare's Meafure for Meafure. 
NO'TEDNESS, f. Confpictioufnefs; ftate of being re¬ 
markable.—To attain the fo-criminally-courted notednefs. 
Boyle's Style of H. Script. 
NOTELy£'A, or Notol/ea, f. [from r/loc, the fouth, 
and sAaia, an olive, or olive-tree.} New-Holland Olive- 
tree. It is made a feparate genus by Ventenat; but the 
characters are fo very fimilar, that our moft judicious Eng- 
li(h botanifts think it unnecefiary to feparate them. See 
OLEA. 
NO'TELESS, adj. Not attracting notice: 
Let her walk faintlike, notelefs, and unknown. 
Yet (he’s betray’d by fome trick of her own. Decker. 
NO'TER, f. [from note.~\ He who takes notice.—-An 
annotator.—Poltellus, and the noter upon him, Severtius, 
have much admired thjs manner of lection. Gregory, 1650. 
NOT'GER, or Notker, furnamed the Stammerer, a 
celebrated monk of the abbey of St. Gall, who flourifhed 
in the ninth and tenth centuries, was defeended from a 
noble family, and born at Heiligow, a few leagues from 
that abbey, towards the clofe of the reign of Louis le De- 
bonnaire. He received his education at the monaftery of 
St. Gall, where he affumed the religious habit among the 
Benediftines on that foundation ; diftinguifhed himfelf 
by the progrefs which he made in (acred and profane li¬ 
terature, and acquired an extraordinary fame for fanftity. 
During feveral years he had the conduft of the fchools 
dependent on that famous abbey, and occupied his hours 
of leifure from that charge and the obfervances of the 
cloifter, in the compofition of literary works, and the 
tranfeription of books of merit. He died at an advanced 
age in the year 912. He was beatified by pope Julius II. 
There are ftill extant by him a “ Martyrology,” in Bafi- 
nage’s Thefaurus Monumentorum Ecclefi’afticorom et 
Hilloricorum ; and feveral others of his productions in the 
Novus Thefaurus Monumentorum of D. Pez. Moreri. 
Nuuv. Di£t. Hift. 
NOT'GER, or Notker, a' celebrated biftiop of Liege, 
in the tenth and eleventh centuries, was a native of Swa¬ 
bia, and of high birth, fome writers calling him the fon 
of a duke of that country, and others a nephew' of the 
emperor Otho I. He became a monk of the abbey of St. 
Gall, and acquired fuch a reputation for learning, that 
Odillon, abbot of Stavelo, entrufted to him the fuperin- 
tendance of the fchools belonging to that religious houfe. 
Some time afterwards he returned fo St. Gall, where he 
was elected provoft, or prior, of that abbey. He now 
frequently attended at the imperial court, where he be¬ 
came a favourite wfith the emperor Otho I. who, upon a 
vacancy taking place in thebifhopric of Liege, in the year 
971, appointed him to that dignity. On his conduft in 
the epifcopal office very high commendations were pafled ; 
and fo greatly did he improve the city of Liege, by fur¬ 
rounding it with a wall, rebuilding the cathedral and fe¬ 
veral other churches, and erefting various magnificent 
ftruftures, that he is entitled to the honours of fecond 
founder of that city. At the fame time he dilplayed a 
commendable folicitude for the encouragement of learn¬ 
ing and fcience, as far as they were then cultivated; and 
in the fchools under his patronage many fcholars were 
educated, wdio poftefled the firft rank among their con¬ 
temporaries. The emperor Otho III. to whom he had 
been tutor, placed fuch confidence in him as to make him 
his principal counfellor; and our prelate fuftained a con- 
fiderable part in the management of public affairs. He 
was prefent at the council of Moufon in 995, and at that 
of Frankfort in 1007. He died in the year 1008. To 
him has by fome been attributed a “ Hiftory of the Bifhops 
of Liege ;” which others maintain to have been the com¬ 
pofition of Heriger abbot of Laubes, from the materials 
collected by Notker, who was the author of the preface. 
This hiftory is inferted in Chapeauville’s Collection of 
Pieces relating to the Hiftory of Liege. Other works alfo 
bear his name, which may be feen in the Collections of 
Surius and Bollandus. Cave's Hijt. Lit. vol. ii. Moreri. 
NOTH'ING, f. [no and thing; nothing, Scot.] Nega¬ 
tion of being; nonentity; univerfal negation; oppofed 
to fo met king. —This nothing is taken either in a vulgar or 
philofophical fenfe ; fo we fay there is nothing in the cup 
in a vulgar fenfe, when we mean there is no liquot in it; 
but we cannot fay there is nothing in the cup in a drift 
philofophical fenfe, while there is air in it. Watts's Logic. 
—It is moft certain, that there never could be nothing. 
For, if there could have been an inftant wherein there 
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