Nothing \Noth"ing\, n. [From no, a. + thing.]
1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word
thing); -- opposed to anything and something.
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.
4. (Arith.) A cipher; naught.
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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