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efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. Tennyson.

A water course, esp. a dry one; a gully; a gorge; -- orig. an East Indian term. E. Arnold.

Turned so as to resemble nulls. Nulled work (Cabinetwork), ornamental turned work resembling nulls or beads strung on a rod.

The state or condition of being nowhere. [Obs.]

The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect. Right of nullification (U. S. Hist.), the right claimed in behalf of a State to nullify or make void, by its sovereign act or decree, an enactment of the general government which it deems unconstitutional.

Of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; -- opposed to Ant: solifidian. Feltham.

One who nullifies or makes void; one who maintains the right to nullify a contract by one of the parties.

render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy. Such correspondence would at once nullify the conditions of the probationary system. I. Taylor.

A name for certain crustaceous marine algæ which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.

The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.

That may be Annulled.

One who annuls. [R.]

One who disannuls.

The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc.

. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton.

The act of annulling; abolition; invalidation.

Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale.

The act of annulling; annulment.

Baptism. [Obs.] Their baptizations were null. Jer. Taylor.

The act of annulling. A general cassation of their constitutions. Motley. Court of cassation, the highest court of appeal in France, which has power to quash (Casser) or reverse the decisions of the inferior courts.