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.

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

Here is now the smith's note for shoeing. Shak.

Give orders to my servants that they take
No note at all of our being absent hence. Shak.

The king . . . shall have note of this. Shak.

Small matters . . . continually in use and in note. Bacon.

There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold. Prescott.

Note of hand, a promissory note.

No more of that; I have noted it well. Shak.

Every unguarded word . . . was noted down. Maccaulay.

They were both noted of incontinency. Dryden.

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.