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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.

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.

That note of revolt against the eighteenth
century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by
Winckelmann.

11. Observation; notice; heed.

Give orders to my servants that they take

No note at all of our being absent hence.

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