Hypertext Webster Gateway: "naught"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Naught \Naught\, n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS.
n?wiht, n?uht, n?ht; ne not + ? ever + wiht thing, whit;
hence, not ever a whit. See {No}, adv. {Whit}, and cf.
{Aught}, {Not}.]
1. Nothing. [Written also {nought}.]
Doth Job fear God for naught? --Job i. 9.
2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See {Cipher}.
{To set at naught}, to treat as of no account; to disregard;
to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. ``Ye have set
at naught all my counsel.'' --Prov. i. 25.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Naught \Naught\, adv.
In no degree; not at all. --Chaucer.
To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied.
--Fairfax.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Naught \Naught\, a.
1. Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. --Prov.
xx. 14.
Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be
naught else. --Shak.
Things naught and things indifferent. --Hooker.
2. Hence, vile; base; naughty. [Obs.]
No man can be stark naught at once. --Fuller.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
naught
n 1: 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}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher},
{goose egg}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}]
2: complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
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