Note \Note\, v. t. [AS. hn[=i]tan to strike against, imp. hn[=a]t.]

To butt; to push with the horns. [Prov. Eng.]

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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.]

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.

To note a bill or 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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Note \Note\ [AS. n[=a]t; ne not + w[=a]t wot. See Not, and Wot.]

Know not; knows not. [Obs.]

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Note \Note\, n. Nut. [Obs.]

--Chaucer.

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Note \Note\, n. [AS. notu use, profit.]

Need; needful business. [Obs.]

--Chaucer.

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Note \Note\, n. [F. note, L. nota; akin to noscere, notum, to know. See Know.]

1. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.

Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession. --Hooker.

She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life -- a tough life and a vigorous. --J. H. Newman.

What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all ! --Mrs. Humphry Ward.

2. A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence.

3. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.

The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations. --Felton.

4. A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.

5. pl. Hence, a writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis, or the full text of what is to be said; as, to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings.

6. A short informal letter; a billet.

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.

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.

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Note: In some parts of the United States, notably in the Southern States, raise in also commonly applied to the rearing or bringing up of children.

I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North. --Paulding.
   (d) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.

I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee. --Deut. xviii. 18.

God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget. --Milton.
   (e) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.

Thou shalt not raise a false report. --Ex. xxiii. 1.
   (f) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.

Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry. --Dryden.
   (g) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.

4. To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.

Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. --Spectator.

5. (Naut.)
   (a) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light.
   (b) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.

6. (Law) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. --Burrill.

To raise a blockade (Mil.), to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.

To raise a check, note, bill of exchange, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified.

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Accommodation \Ac*com`mo*da"tion\, n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.]

1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. ``The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.'' --Sir M. Hale.

2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.

3. Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn. --Sir W. Scott.

4. An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. ``To come to terms of accommodation.'' --Macaulay.

5. The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.

Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. --Paley.

6. (Com.)
   (a) A loan of money.
   (b) An accommodation bill or note.

Accommodation bill, or note (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit.

Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations.

Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.

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