n. [ From no, a. + thing. ] 1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought. Is. xli. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend,
This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arith.) A cipher; naught. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In no degree; not at all; in no wise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing off (Naut.), an order to the steersman to keep the vessel close to the wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Nihility; nothingness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Nihility; nonexistence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. inconsequential conversation; as, they traded a few nothings as they parted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]