Hypertext Webster Gateway: "nil"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nil \Nil\ [See {Nill}, v. t.]
Will not. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nil \Nil\, n. & a. [L., a contr. of nihil.]
Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for
canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping. --A. J. Ellis.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
nil
n 1: nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort
to serve a writ: "nihil habet") [syn: {nihil}]
2: 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},
{nix}, {nada}, {null}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose
egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}]
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