Hypertext Webster Gateway: "aught"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aught \Aught\, Aucht \Aucht\, n. [AS. ?ht, fr. [=a]gan to own,
p. p. [=a]hte.]
Property; possession. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aught \Aught\, n. [OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. [=a]wiht, [=a]
ever + wiht. [root]136. See {Aye} ever, and {Whit}, {Wight}.]
Anything; any part. [Also written {ought}.]
There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord
has spoken. --Josh. xxi.
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But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. --Addison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Aught \Aught\ ([add]t), adv.
At all; in any degree. --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
aught
n : a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all
for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: {nothing},
{nil}, {nix}, {nada}, {null}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose
egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}]
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