NOTE (6)

Note (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Noted; p. pr. & vb. n. Noting.] [[F. noter, L. notare, fr. nota. See Note, n.]] 1. 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. 2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
Every unguarded word . . . was noted down. Maccaulay. 3. 3. To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand.
They were both noted of incontinency. Dryden. 4. 4. To denote; to designate. Johnson.
5. 5. To annotate. W. H. Dixon.
6. 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.