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.
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.
{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.