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aught1    Audio Help   [awt] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.anything whatever; any part: for aught I know.
–adverb
2.Archaic. in any degree; at all; in any respect.
Also, ought.


[Origin: bef. 1000; ME aught, ought, OE āht, āwiht, ōwiht, equiv. to ā, ō ever + wiht thing, wight1]
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–noun
a cipher (0); zero.
Also, ought.


[Origin: a naught, taken as an aught (cf. auger). See naught]
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–verb (used with object) Scot.
1.to own; possess.
2.to owe (someone or something); be obligated to.
–adjective
3.possessed of.
–noun
4.Archaic.
a.ownership; possession.
b.property; a possession.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME; OE æht; c. OHG éht, Goth aihts; akin to owe, own]
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–adjective Scot.
1.eight.
2.eighth.

[Origin: ME aghte, aughte, var. of eighte; see eight]
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aught 1 also ought    Audio Help   (ôt)  Pronunciation Key 
pron.   Anything whatever: "Neither of his parents had aught but praise for him" (Louis Auchincloss).

adv.   Archaic In any respect; at all.


[Middle English, from Old English āuht; see aiw- in Indo-European roots.]

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aught 2 also ought    Audio Help   (ôt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A cipher; zero.
  2. Archaic Nothing.


[From an aught, alteration of a naught; see naught.]

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aught  (1)
"something," O.E. awiht "aught, anything, something," lit. "e'er a whit," from P.Gmc. *aiwi "ever" (from PIE *aiw- "vital force, life, long life, eternity.") + *wihti "thing, anything whatever" (see wight). In Shakespeare, Milton and Pope, aught and ought occur indiscriminately.

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aught  (2)
"nothing, zero," faulty sep. of a naught (see naught).

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noun
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" 

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Aught

Aught\, Aucht \Aucht\, n. [AS. ?ht, fr. [=a]gan to own, p. p. [=a]hte.] Property; possession. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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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.
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Aught

Aught\ ([add]t), adv. At all; in any degree. --Chaucer.
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