1. A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to the bearer on demand. See also sense 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the United States popularly called a bank bill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date; a bank bill. See Bank bill, 2. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A promissory note payable at a bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A promissory note issued by an authorized bank, payable to the bearer on demand and intended to circulate as government-authorized money; in the United States such notes may only be issued by a Federal Reserve Bank; as, he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty banknotes.
Syn. -- bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, Federal Reserve note, greenback. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

‖ [ Fr., lit. black beast. ] Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. dies non juridicus. ] (Law) A day on which courts are not held, as Sunday or any legal holiday. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Political Science) The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention, and, loosely, to the nomination effected, as in the case of candidates for president or senator of the United States, by the election of nominating representatives pledged or instructed to vote for certain candidates dssignated by popular vote. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

[ So called from the image of St. George on it. ] A gold noble of the time of Henry VIII. See Noble, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Computers) A notation for commands or instructions in which the operator is inserted between the terms on which it operates. Contrasted with prefix notation and postfix notation.

n. A type of notebook with hard covers attached to metal rings which open, allowing sheets of writing paper to be conveniently inserted into it and removed from it. [ PJC ]

. (Anat.) A lymphatic gland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The direction in which the north-pointing end of a compass needle points; at low latitudes it is close to geographic (true) north, but deviates substantially from true north as one nears the north pole.
Syn. -- north, compass north. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. our sea. ] The term used by the ancient Romans to refer to the Mediterranean Sea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. A nozzle capable of turning completely round in a horizontal plane and having a limited play in a vertical plane, used in hydraulic mining, fire-extinguishing apparatus, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } adv. [ No, a. + way. Cf. -wards. ] In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise. [ 1913 Webster ]

But Ireland will noways allow that name unto it. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the trademark Post-it registered by the 3M Corporation. ] A small sheet of paper having the back part partly covered with a non-permanent gum which allows the note to be attached temporarily to another object, and easily removed without leaving any trace of glue on the object to which it was affixed. Such note papers are sold in pads of varying sizes. [ Trademark ] [ PJC ]

(Com.) A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

A short, thick nose; a snubnose. -- Pug"-nosed` a. [1913 Webster]

Pug-nose eel (Zool.), a deep-water marine eel (Simenchelys parasiticus) which sometimes burrows into the flesh of the halibut. [1913 Webster]

. (Com.) A document used in shipping goods by sea. In the case of free goods the shipping notes are the
receiving note, addressed by the shipper to the chief officer of the vessel, requesting him to receive on board specified goods, and a receipt for the mate to sign, on receiving whose signature it is called the
mate's receipt, and is surrendered by the shipper for the bills of lading. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Electronics, Information science, Experimental science) The ratio of the intensity of a signal{ 2 } to the background noise detected by a measuring instrument, especially in a communications channel; the higher the ratio, the more accurately the information contained can be interpreted. The term is applied not only to human communications, but to the detection of information in any system that is being studied to gain knowledge; as, the signal-to-noise ratio of light signals in older optic fibers drops to an unusable level after several miles.. [ PJC ]

n. a mixture or random noise sounds extending over the entire audible frequency spectrum with approximately equal intensity at all frequencies. It is used in certain experiments, as in psychology, to prevent subjects from hearing meaningful sounds. [ PJC ]