1. (n.) Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.

2. (n.) Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.

3. (n.) A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.

4. (n.) A cipher; naught.

5. (adv.) In no degree; not at all; in no wise.

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