Definition of Notheng
Noth"ing (?), n. [From no, a. +
thing.]
1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest
sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and
something.
Yet had his aspect nothing of
severe. Dryden.
2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being;
nihility; nothingness. Shak.
3. A thing of no account, value, or note;
something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative
unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of
nought. Is. xli. 24.
'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the
friend,
This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end.
Dryden.
4. (Arith.) A cipher;
naught.
Nothing but, only; no more than.
Chaucer. -- To make nothing of.
(a) To make no difficulty of; to consider as
trifling or important. "We are industrious to preserve our
bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our
souls to be slaves to our lusts." Ray. (b)
Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he
said.
Noth"ing, adv. In no degree; not
at all; in no wise.
Adam, with such counsel nothing
swayed. Milton.
The influence of reason in producing our passions is
nothing near so extensive as is commonly
believed. Burke.
Nothing off (Naut.), an order to the
steersman to keep the vessel close to the wind.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Not any thing; no thing.
- (non-standard) Anything (in double negatives such as I didn't see nothing ).
- Something trifling, something of no consequence.
What happened to your face? — It's nothing.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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