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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Not, adv.  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.]