in music, characters which mark the sounds, i.e. the elevations and fallings of the voice, and the swiftness and slowness of its motions.

Note is likewise used for a mark made in a book or writing, where there occurs something remarkable and worthy of particular notice; as also for an observation or explication of some passage in an author added in the margin, at the bottom of the page, or elsewhere; in which sense it stands contradistinguished to text.

Note, is also a minute, or short writing, containing some article of business; in which sense we say, promissory note, note of hand, bank-note, &c.

NOTUS, signifies spurious, or bastard; whence it is figuratively applied by physicians to such diseases as, though in a reflect of a multitude of symptoms, &c. they have the same denomination as some others, yet are of a different origin, seat, or the like, from the same.