nottadj.n.

OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 35 Glabrio, calu oððe hnot.

a1325 St. Agnes (Corpus Cambr.) 47 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 20 (MED) Þis maide nas [read was] noȝt [?a1425 Julius nowt] for hure ȝonghede, ac..On hure heued was..miche her sodeinliche bicome.

c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 109 A not heed hadde he, with a broun visage.

c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 46 Thane cometh þer..As not of his nolle as he þe nest made, Anoþer proud partriche.

a1637 B. Jonson Newes from New World 278 in Wks. (1640) III Not heads and broad hats, short doublets, and long points.

OE Bounds (Sawyer 1004) in Facsimiles Anglo-Saxon MSS (1881) II. (Earl of Ilchester, iii) Of þam hnottan stybbe &lang hæccean on ðone mycclan mapeldran.

lOE Bounds (Sawyer 412) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 357 Of þam lange grafette, suðeweardon to ðon hnottan seale on searleage stent.

a1170 ( Bounds (Sawyer 491) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Abingdon Abbey, Pt. 1 (2000) 155 Of þam pytte on þone hnottan þorn, of þam þorne on wines treow.

1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Sheep (1627) 237 Some say, that a horned ram is ill to get lambs:..therfore the nat ram is counted the better.

1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax Prol. sig. Aviij^v He massacred a whole flocke of good nott Ewes.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 50 They have not all of them hornes, but some are nott;..the nott she goats are more free of milk.

1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Not, smooth, polled or shorn. Not-sheep, sheep without horns. Essex.

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xiv. 347 The Old Devonshire dim-faced nott sheep.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. xvii. 218 Why do nott cows give less milk in a year than horned?

1963 H. L. Bourne Living on Exmoor 170 Obe comes across..heads that are one-horned or those of nott-stags which never threw more than a knob of antler in all their lives.

1971 R. G. Noseworthy Dial. Surv. Grand Bank, Newfoundland 226 It can freeze hard enough to freeze the horns of a not-cow.

1976 A. Fischer Dial. in South-west Eng. 149 It appears that not is gradually being replaced by hornless and by poll and its derivatives.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 20 Of Wheate there are two sorts, French, which is bearded,..and Notwheate, so termed, because it is vnbearded.

c1680 Enquiries 2/2 Do you sow Aleppo wheat,..Not wheat, Pendule wheat?.. Have you..Not Barleys sown here, or any other Barleys?

1794 L. Majendie in Ann. Agric. (1795) 23 414 In provincial language they [sc. sheep without horns] are often called nots, from not having horns.

1809 W. Mavor Agric. Berks. xiii. 381 The characteristic features of the Berkshire notts are not easily obliterated.

1834 W. Youatt Cattle 179 The Devonshire Nats, or polled cattle..possess the general figure and most of the good qualities of the horned beasts of that district.

1837 W. Youatt Sheep vii. 253 The Devonshire notts, or polled sheep, used..to be at least middle-woolled, if not short-woolled sheep.

1875 W. Pengelly Verbal Provincialisms South-west. Devonshire 113 A cross of the new Leicester with the Bampton nott.

1907 J. G. Millais Newfoundland xv. 291 The stag..was quite hornless—in fact a ‘hummel’ or ‘nott’, as these hornless stags are called in Newfoundland.

1920 Edinb. Rev. July 131 The ‘Devonshire Nats’..comprised two varieties known somewhat later as the ‘Southern Notts’ and the ‘Bampton’ Notts.

1936 A. D. Nott Ld. Ernle's Eng. Farming Past & Present (ed. 5) viii West-country clothiers drew their supplies, partly from Wales, partly from..the Exmoors, Dartmoors, or Devonshire Notts, the Mendips of Somerset, the Dean Foresters of Gloucester, or the Ryelands of Herefordshire.

1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares i. sig. C3 Your not-headed Countrie Gentleman.

a1652 R. Brome City Wit ii. ii. sig. C, in Five New Playes (1653) Linsy wolsie, the Hermaphroditicall Draper! That's a precious Nott-headed Rascall.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 69 Wilt thou rob this leathern Ierkin, cristall button, not-pated, agat ring. View more context for this quotation