Nothing

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A cipher; naught.

II. Nothing ·adv In no degree; not at all; in no wise.

III. Nothing ·noun Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.

IV. Nothing ·noun Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing);

— opposed to anything and something.

V. Nothing ·noun A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.

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