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naught
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Naught \Naught\ (n[add]t), n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n[=a]wiht, n[=a]uht, n[=a]ht; ne not + [=a] ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.] 1. Nothing. [Written also nought.] [1913 Webster] Doth Job fear God for naught? --Job i. 9. [1913 Webster] 2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Naught \Naught\, adv.
In no degree; not at all. --Chaucer.
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To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied.
--Fairfax.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Naught \Naught\, a.
1. Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.
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It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. --Prov.
xx. 14.
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Go, get you to your house; begone, away!
All will be naught else. --Shak.
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Things naught and things indifferent. --Hooker.
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2. Hence, vile; base; naughty. [Obs.]
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No man can be stark naught at once. --Fuller.
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