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.