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English Dictionary: aught by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
aught
n
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Aught \Aught\ ([add]t), adv.
      At all; in any degree. --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Aught \Aught\, Aucht \Aucht\, n. [AS. [?]ht, fr. [be]gan to own,
      p. p. [be]hte.]
      Property; possession. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Aught \Aught\, n. [OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. [be]wiht, [be]
      ever + wiht. [fb]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.
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