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Webster 1913 Edition


Not

Not

.
[Contr. from
ne wot
. See 2d
Note
.]
Wot not; know not; knows not.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Not

,
Adj.
Shorn; shaven.
[Obs.]
See
Nott
.

Not

,
adv.
[OE.
not
,
noht
,
nought
,
naught
, the same word as E.
naught
. See
Naught
.]
A word used to express negation, prohibition, denial, or refusal.
Not
one word spake he more than was need.
Chaucer.
Thou shalt
not
steal.
Ex. xx. 15.
Thine eyes are upon me, and I am
not
.
Job vii. 8.
The question is, may I do it, or may I
not
do it?
Bp. Sanderson.
Not . . . but
, or
Not but
,
only.
[Obs. or Colloq.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Not

NOT

,
adv.
[See Naught.]
1.
A word that expreses negation, denial or refusal; as, he will no go; will you remain? I will not. In the first member of a sentence, it may be followed by nor or neither; as not for a price nor reward; I was not in sfety, neither had I rest.
2.
With the substantive verb in the following phrase, it denies being, or denotes extinction of existence.
Thine eyes are open upon me, and I am not. Job 7.

Definition 2024


nöt

nöt

See also: noet and Appendix:Variations of "not"

Swedish

Noun

nöt c

  1. nut, a hard-shelled seed
  2. a difficult problem (hard to crack, like a nut)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish nø̄t, from Old Norse naut, from Proto-Germanic *nautą, from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (to acquire, make use of).

Noun

nöt n

  1. cattle, especially in compounds such as nötkreatur, "cattle animal", or nötkött, "beef"
  2. (archaic) bull
  3. (derogatory) a stupid or slow person
Declension
Inflection of nöt 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative nöt nötet nöt nöten
Genitive nöts nötets nöts nötens
Related terms

Etymology 3

Non-lemma forms.

Verb

nöt

  1. imperative of nöta.

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