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To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person. No law can bind till it be notified or promulged. Sowth.

properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notæ. What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles. Sir I. Newton. Few agree in their notions about these words. Cheyne. That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or…

Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.

A notional or groundless opinion. [R.] Glanvill.

In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality. Two faculties . . . notionally or really distinct. Norris.

Notional. [R.]

One whose opinions are ungrounded notions. [R.] Bp. Hopkins.

An annotator. [Obs.]

A division of nudibranchiate mollusks having gills upon the back.

Of or pertaining to the Notobranchiata.

An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebræ and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

Of or pertaining to the notochord; having a notochord.

Any one of several species of bombycid moths belonging to Notodonta, Nerice, and allied genera. The caterpillar of these moths has a hump, or spine, on its back.

The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium. See Parapodium.

Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.

The quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; -- commonly used in an unfavorable sense; as, the notoriety of a crime. They were not subjects in their own nature so exposed to public notoriety. Addison.

ved to be true; manifest to the world; evident; -- usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice. Your goodness, Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious. Shak.

of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct.

An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.

The pouched, or marsupial, frog of South America.