Naught , a.
1. 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. 2. Hence, vile; base; naughty.
[Obs.]
No man can be stark naught at once.
Fuller.
Naught , adv. In no degree; not at all. Chaucer.
To wealth or
sovereign power he naught
applied.
Fairfax.
Naught (?), n. [OE.
naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n&?;wiht, n&?;uht, n&?;ht; ne not + &?; ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not.]
1. Nothing. [Written also nought.]
Doth Job fear
God for naught?
Job
i. 9. 2. 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.