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 ]
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