Hypertext Webster Gateway: "nil"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nil \Nil\ [See {Nill}, v. t.] Will not. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nil \Nil\, n. & a. [L., a contr. of nihil.] Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or
bookkeeping. --A. J. Ellis.
From WordNet (r) 1.6 (wn)
nil n 1: nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ: "nihil habet") [syn: {nihil}] 2: a quantity of no
importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic
goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: {nothing}, {nix}, {nada}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher},
{goose egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}] |
