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Accommodation , n. [L. accommodatio, fr. accommodare: cf. F. accommodation.]
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The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. “The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.” Sir M. Hale.

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Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
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Whatever supplies a want or affords ease, refreshment, or convenience; anything furnished which is desired or needful; -- often in the plural; as, the accommodations -- that is, lodgings and food -- at an inn.Sir W. Scott.

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An adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement. “To come to terms of accommodation.” Macaulay.

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The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
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Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations.
Paley.

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(Com.) (a) A loan of money. (b) An accommodation bill or note.
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Accommodation bill, or note (Com.), a bill of exchange which a person accepts, or a note which a person makes and delivers to another, not upon a consideration received, but for the purpose of raising money on credit. -- Accommodation coach, or train, one running at moderate speed and stopping at all or nearly all stations. -- Accommodation ladder (Naut.), a light ladder hung over the side of a ship at the gangway, useful in ascending from, or descending to, small boats.
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Note , v. t. [AS. hnītan to strike against, imp. hnāt.] To butt; to push with the horns. [Prov. Eng.]
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Note . [AS. nāt; ne not + wāt wot. See Not, and Wot.] Know not; knows not. [Obs.]
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Note, n. Nut. [Obs.]Chaucer.

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Note, n. [AS. notu use, profit.] Need; needful business. [Obs.]Chaucer.

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Note, n. [F. note, L. nota; akin to noscere, notum, to know. See Know.]A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality.
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Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession.
Hooker.

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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.

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What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all !
Mrs. Humphry Ward.

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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.
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A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation.
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The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations.
Felton.

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A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute.
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pl. 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.
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A short informal letter; a billet.
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A diplomatic missive or written communication.
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A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note.
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A list of items or of charges; an account. [Obs.]
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Here is now the smith's note for shoeing.
Shak.

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(Mus.) (a) A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence: (b) A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune. (c) A key of the piano or organ.
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The wakeful bird . . . tunes her nocturnal note.
Milton.

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That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann.
W. Pater.

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Observation; notice; heed.
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Give orders to my servants that they take
No note at all of our being absent hence.
Shak.

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Notification; information; intelligence. [Obs.]
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The king . . . shall have note of this.
Shak.

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State of being under observation. [Obs.]
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Small matters . . . continually in use and in note.
Bacon.

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Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note.
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There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold.
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Stigma; brand; reproach. [Obs.]Shak.

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Note of hand, a promissory note.
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Note , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Noted; p. pr. & vb. n. Noting.] [F. noter, L. notare, fr. nota. See Note, n.]
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To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to.Pope.

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No more of that; I have noted it well.
Shak.

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The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address, 1863).

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To record in writing; to make a memorandum of.
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Every unguarded word . . . was noted down.
Maccaulay.

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To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand. [Obs.]
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They were both noted of incontinency.
Dryden.

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To denote; to designate.Johnson.

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To annotate. [R.]W. H. Dixon.

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To set down in musical characters.
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To note a bill or To note a 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.
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Raise , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raised ; p. pr. & vb. n. Raising.] [OE. reisen, Icel. reisa, causative of rīsa to rise. See Rise, and cf. Rear to raise.]
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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight. Hence, figuratively: --
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(a) To bring to a higher condition or situation; to elevate in rank, dignity, and the like; to increase the value or estimation of; to promote; to exalt; to advance; to enhance; as, to raise from a low estate; to raise to office; to raise the price, and the like.
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This gentleman came to be raised to great titles.
Clarendon.

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The plate pieces of eight were raised three pence in the piece.
Sir W. Temple.

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(b) To increase the strength, vigor, or vehemence of; to excite; to intensify; to invigorate; to heighten; as, to raise the pulse; to raise the voice; to raise the spirits or the courage; to raise the heat of a furnace.
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(c) To elevate in degree according to some scale; as, to raise the pitch of the voice; to raise the temperature of a room.
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To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence: --
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(a) To cause to spring up from a recumbent position, from a state of quiet, or the like; to awaken; to arouse.
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They shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Job xiv. 12.

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(b) To rouse to action; to stir up; to incite to tumult, struggle, or war; to excite.
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He commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind.
Ps. cvii. 25.

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Aeneas . . . employs his pains,
In parts remote, to raise the Tuscan swains.
Dryden.

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(c) To bring up from the lower world; to call up, as a spirit from the world of spirits; to recall from death; to give life to.
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Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead ?
Acts xxvi. 8.

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To cause to arise, grow up, or come into being or to appear; to give rise to; to originate, produce, cause, effect, or the like. Hence, specifically: --
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(a) To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect; as, to raise a lofty structure, a wall, a heap of stones.
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I will raise forts against thee.
Isa. xxix. 3.

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(b) To bring together; to collect; to levy; to get together or obtain for use or service; as, to raise money, troops, and the like. “To raise up a rent.” 
Chaucer.

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(c) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. “He raised sheep.” “He raised wheat where none grew before.” 
Johnson's Dict.

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☞ In some parts of the United States, notably in the Southern States, raise is also commonly applied to the rearing or bringing up of children.
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I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North.
Paulding.

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(d) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear; -- often with up.
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I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.
Deut. xviii. 18.

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God vouchsafes to raise another world
From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.
Milton.

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(e) To give rise to; to set agoing; to occasion; to start; to originate; as, to raise a smile or a blush.
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Thou shalt not raise a false report.
Ex. xxiii. 1.

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(f) To give vent or utterance to; to utter; to strike up.
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Soon as the prince appears, they raise a cry.
Dryden.

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(g) To bring to notice; to submit for consideration; as, to raise a point of order; to raise an objection.
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To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread.
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Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste.
Spectator.

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(Naut.) (a) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it; as, to raise Sandy Hook light. (b) To let go; as in the command, Raise tacks and sheets, i. e., Let go tacks and sheets.
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(Law) To create or constitute; as, to raise a use, that is, to create it.Burrill.

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To raise a blockade (Mil.), to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. -- To raise a check, note, bill of exchange, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified. -- To raise a siege, to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished. -- To raise steam, to produce steam of a required pressure. -- To raise the wind, to procure ready money by some temporary expedient. [Colloq.] -- To raise Cain, or To raise the devil, to cause a great disturbance; to make great trouble. [Slang]
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Syn. -- To lift; exalt; elevate; erect; originate; cause; produce; grow; heighten; aggravate; excite.
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