None \None\, a. & pron. [OE. none, non, nan, no, na, AS. n[=a]n,
fr. ne not + [=a]n one. ?. See No, a. & adv., One, and
cf. Non-, Null, a.]
1. No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also
partitively, or as a plural, not any.
There is none that doeth good; no, not one. --Ps.
xiv. 3.
Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day,
which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none.
--Ex. xvi. 26.
Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought.
--Milton.
None of their productions are extant. --Blair.
2. No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old
style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life.
None of, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically.
``They knew that I was none of the register that entered
their admissions in the universities.'' --Fuller.
None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbrosa. See London
pride
(a), under London.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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