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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aught \Aught\, Aucht \Aucht\, n. [AS. ?ht, fr [=a]gan to own p. p. [=a]hte.] Property; possession. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aught \Aught\, n. [OE. aught, ought, awiht AS [=a]wiht, [=a] ever + wiht. [root]136. See {Aye} ever, and {Whit}, {Wight}.] Anything any part [Also written {ought}.] There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken. --Josh. xxi. 45 But go my son, and see if aught be wanting. --Addison. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Aught \Aught\ ([add]t), adv At all in any degree. --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: aught n : 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}, {nil}, {nix}, {nada}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}]
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