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.

Naught
(Naught), adv. In no degree; not at all. Chaucer.

To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied.
Fairfax.

Naught
(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.

Naughtily
(Naugh"ti*ly) adv. In a naughty manner; wickedly; perversely. Shak.

Naughtiness
(Naugh"ti*ness), n. The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness.

I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.
1 Sam. xvii. 28.

Naughtly
(Naught"ly) adv. Naughtily; wrongly. [Obs.]

because my parents naughtly brought me up.
Mir. for Mag.

Naughty
(Naugh"ty) a. [Compar. Naughtier ; superl. Naughtiest.]

Natureless
(Na"ture*less) a. Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. [Obs.] Milton.

Naturism
(Na"tur*ism) n. (Med.) The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.

Naturist
(Na"tur*ist), n. One who believes in, or conforms to, the theory of naturism. Boyle.

Naturity
(Na*tu"ri*ty) n. The quality or state of being produced by nature. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Naturize
(Na"tur*ize) v. t. To endow with a nature or qualities; to refer to nature. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Naufrage
(Nau"frage) n. [F., fr. L. naufragium; navis + frangere.] Shipwreck; ruin. [Obs.] acon.

Naufragous
(Nau"fra*gous) a. [L. naufragus. See Naufrage.] causing shipwreck. [Obs.] r. Taylor.

Naught
(Naught) n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. nwiht, nuht, nht; 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.


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