Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: NO-SO-LOG'IC-AL – NOTE
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NO-SO-LOG'IC-AL, a. [See Nosolegy.]
Pertaining to nosology, or a systematic classification of diseases.
NO-SOL'O-GIST, n.
One who classifies diseases, arranges them in order, and gives them suitable names.
NO-SOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. νοσος, disease, and λογος, discourse.]
- A systematic arrangement or classification of diseases with names and definitions, according to the distinctive character of each class, order, genus and species. Encyc.
- That branch of medical science which treats of the classification of diseases.
NO-SO-PO-ET'IC, a. [Gr. νοσος, disease, and ποιεω, to produce.]
Producing diseases. [Little used.] Arbuthnot.
NOS'TRIL, n. [Sax. nosethyrl, næsethyrl. Thyrl or thirel is an opening or perforation; thirlian, thyrlian, to bore, to perforate, to thrill, to drill. See Drill.]
An aperture or passage through the nose. The nostrils are the passages through which air is inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
NOS'TRUM, n. [L. from noster, ours.]
A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor. Pope.
NOT, adv. [Sax. naht or noht, naught, that is, ne and awiht, not any thing; D. niet; G. nicht; Russ. niete; Scot. nocht. See Naught.]
- A word that expresses negation, denial or refusal; as, he will not go; will you remain? I will not. In the first member of a sentence, it may be followed by nor or neither; as, not for a price nor reward; I was not in safety, neither had I rest.
- With the substantive verb in the following phrase, it denies being, or denotes extinction of existence. Thine eyes are open upon me, and I am not. Job vii.
NO'TA-BLE, a.1 [Fr. notable; L. notabilis, from notus, known; nosco, to know.]
- Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished.
- In scripture, conspicuous; sightly; as, a notable horn. Dan. viii.
- Notorious, well known. Matth. xxviii.
- Terrible. Acts. ii.
- Known or apparent. Acts iv.
NOT'A-BLE, a.2
Active; industrious; distinguished for good management; as, a notable woman or housekeeper.
NO'TA-BLE, n.
- In France, the nobles or persons of rank and distinction were formerly called notables.
- A thing worthy of observation. Addison.
NOT'A-BLE-NESS, n.
- Activity; industriousness; care. [Little used.]
- Remarkableness.
NO'TA-BLY, adv.
- Memorably; remarkably; eminently. Bacon.
- With show of consequence or importance. Addison.
NO-TA'RI-AL, a. [from notary.]
- Pertaining to a notary; as, a notarial seal; notarial evidence or attestation.
- Done or taken by a notary.
NO-TA'RI-AL-LY, adv.
In a notarial manner.
NO'TA-RY, n. [L. notarius, from notus, known, from nosco.]
- Primarily, a person employed to take notes of contracts, trials and proceedings in courts among the Romans.
- In modern usage, an officer authorized to attest contracts or writings of any kind, to give them the evidence of authenticity. This officer is often styled notary public.
NO-TA'TION, n. [L. notatio, from noto, to mark.]
- The act or practice of recording any thing by marks, figures or characters; particularly in arithmetic and algebra, the expressing of numbers and quantities by figures, signs or characters appropriate for the purpose.
- Meaning; signification. Conscience, according to the very notation of the word, imports a double knowledge. [Unusual.] South.
NOTCH, n. [qu. G. knicken, to crack or flaw, Dan. knikker. It seems to be the same word in origin as niche, nick. Class Ng, No. 49.]
- A hollow cut in any thing; a nick; an indentation. And on the stick ten equal notches makes. – Swift.
- An opening or narrow passage through a mountain or hill. We say the notch of a mountain. – United States.
NOTCH, v.t.
To cut in small hollows; as, to notch a stick. – Pope.
NOTCH'-BOARD, n.
The board which receives the ends of the steps in a stair-case.
NOTCH'ED, pp.
Cut into small hollows.
NOTCH'ING, ppr.
Cutting into small hollows.
NOTCH'-WEED, n.
A plant called orach. – Johnson.
NOTE, n. [L. nota; Fr. note; W. nod; from L. notus, nosco, to know.]
- A mark or token; something by which a thing may be known; a visible sign. They who appertain to the visible church have all the notes of external profession. – Hooker.
- A mark made in a book, indicating something worthy of particular notice.
- A short remark; a passage or explanation in the margin of a book.
- A minute, memorandum or short writing intended to assist the memory.
- Notice; heed. Give order to my servants that they take / No note at all of our being absent hence. – Shak.
- Reputation; consequence; distinction; as, men of note. – Acts xvi.
- State of being observed. Small matters, continually in use and note. [Little used.] – Bacon.
- In music, a character which marks a sound, or the sound itself; as a semibreve, a minim, &c. Notes are marks of sounds in relation to elevation or depression, or to the time of continuing sounds.
- Tune; voice; harmonious or melodious sounds. The wakeful bird tunes her nocturnal note. – Milton. One common note on either lyre did strike. – Dryden.
- Abbreviation; symbol. – Baker.
- A short letter; a billet. – Dryden.
- Annotation; commentary; as, the notes in Scott's Bible; to write notes on Homer.
- A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt and promising payment; as, a promissory nate; a bank-note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
- Notes, plur., a writing; a written discourse; applied equally to minutes or heads of a discourse or argument, or to a discourse fully written. The advocate often has notes to assist his memory, and clergymen preach with notes or without them.
- A diplomatic communication in writing; an official paper sent from one minister or envoy to another. My note of January 10th still remains unanswered. Gallatin.
NOTE, v.
For ne wote, knew not or could not. – Chaucer. Spenser.
NOTE, v.t. [L. noto.]
- To observe; to notice with particular care; to heed; to attend to. No more of that; I have noted it well. Shak. Their manners noted and their states survey'd. Pope.
- To set down in writing. Note it in a book. Is. xxx.
- To charge, as with a crime; with of or for. They were both noted of incontinency. [Obs.] Dryden.