| notchweed | <botany> A foul-smelling weed, the stinking goosefoot (Chenopodium Vulvaria). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| note | 1. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality. "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) 2. A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence. 3. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation. "The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations." (Felton) 4. A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute. 5. Hence, a writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis, or the full text of what is to be said; as, to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings. 6. A short informal letter; a billet. 7. A diplomatic missive or written communication. 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. "Here is now the smith's note for shoeing." (Shak) 10. A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence: A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune. A key of the piano or organ. "The wakeful bird . . . Tunes her nocturnal note." (Milton) "That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann." (W. Pater) 11. Observation; notice; heed. "Give orders to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence." (Shak) 12. Notification; information; intelligence. "The king . . . Shall have note of this." (Shak) 13. State of being under observation. "Small matters . . . Continually in use and in note." (Bacon) 14. Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note. "There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold." (Prescott) 15. Stigma; brand; reproach. Note of hand, a promissory note. Origin: F. Note, L. Nota; akin to noscere, notum, to know. See Know. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| note blindness | Loss of the ability to read music. (27 Sep 1997) |
| notencephalocele | Malformation in the occipital portion of the cranium with protrusion of brain substance. Origin: G. Notos, back, + enkephalos, brain, + kele, hernia (05 Mar 2000) |
| nothing | 1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); opposed to anything and something. "Yet had his aspect nothing of severe." (Dryden) 2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness. 3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle. "Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought." (Is. Xli. 24) "'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end." (Dryden) 4. <mathematics> A cipher; naught. Nothing but, only; no more than. To make nothing of. To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. "We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts." . Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he said. Origin: From no, a. + thing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Nothnagel, C W Hermann | <person> Austrian physician, 1841-1905. See: Nothnagel's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| notice | 1. To observe; to see to mark; to take note of; to heed; to pay attention to. 2. To show that one has observed; to take public note of; remark upon; to make comments on; to refer to; as, to notice a book. "This plant deserves to be noticed in this place." (Tooke) "Another circumstance was noticed in connection with the suggestion last discussed." (Sir W. Hamilton) 3. To treat with attention and civility; as, to notice strangers. Synonym: To remark, observe, perceive, see, mark, note, mind, regard, heed, mention. See Remark. Origin: Noticed; Noticing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| notidanian | <zoology> Any one of several species of sharks of the family Notidanidae, or Hexanchidae. Synonym: cow sharks. See Shark. Origin: Gr. Back + comely. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| notifiable disease | <epidemiology> Diseases, usually of an infectious nature, whose occurrence is required by law to be made known to a health officer or local government authority. (05 Dec 1998) |
| notional | 1. Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions. 2. Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical. "Discourses of speculative and notional things." (Evelyn) 3. Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical; fanciful; as, a notional man. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| notobranchiata | <marine biology> A division of nudibranchiate mollusks having gills upon the back. The Dorsibranchiata. Origin: NL. See Notum, and Branchia. (19 Mar 1998) |
| notobranchiate | <zoology> Of or pertaining to the Notobranchiata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| notochord | <embryology> An axial mesodermal tissue found in embryonic stages of all chordates and protochordates, often regressing as maturity is approached. Typically a rod shaped mass of vacuolated cells. It lies immediately below the nerve cord and may provide mechanical strength to the embryo. (13 Nov 1997) |
| notochordal | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| notochordal canal | Invagination of the blastopore into the notochordal process to form a cavity. See: neurenteric canal. Synonym: notochordal canal. (05 Mar 2000) |