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High in pitch; acute; as, a sharp note or tone.

The great titmouse; -- so called from its harsh call notes. [Prov. Eng.]

To strip; to plunder; to fleece. [Colloq.] To shave a note, to buy it at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows. [Cant, U.S.]

A tool or machine for shaving. A note shaver, a person who buys notes at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest. [Cant, U.S.]

The chaffinch; -- so named from its call note. [Prov. Eng.]

chor stowed on shores outside the waist of a vessel; -- called also waist anchor. See the Note under Anchor.

See the Note under 2d Lac.

To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar. [U. S.]

The quality or state of being shoddy. [Colloq.] See the Note under Shoddy, n.

s and a small bursting charge to scatter them at any given point while in flight. See the Note under Case shot.

with a shriek or shrieks. On top whereof aye dwelt the ghostly owl, Shrieking his baleful note. Spenser. She shrieked his name To the dark woods. Moore.

Having a throat which produces a shrill note. [R.] Shak.

A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.

A genus of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.

by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade.

One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.

sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff, immediately after the clef, affecting all notes of the same letter throughout the piece or movement. Each minor key has the same signature as its relative major.

To mean; to import; to denote; to betoken. He bade her tell him what it signified. Chaucer. A tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Shak.

A religious sect noted for warlike traits, founded in the Punjab at the end of the 15th century.