NAUGHT

n. adv. a.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Nothing. [Written also nought.] Doth Job fear God for naught Job i. 9.

2.
n.

The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher. 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.

3.
adv.

In no degree; not at all. Chaucer. To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. Fairfax.

4.
a.

Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. Prov. xx. 14. Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else. Shak. Things naught and things indifferent. Hooker.

5.
a.

Hence, vile; base; naughty. [Obs.] No man can be stark naught at once. Fuller.

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