Naught1, n.
(nawt, 75), n. [Written also nought.] [A-S. nāwiht, nāuht, nōht, niht, nīt, from ne, not, and wiht, aht, āht, owiht, aught; O. Sax. neowiht, nōwiht, Goth. ni vaiht, vaiht ni, O. H. Ger. néowiht, néowih(t), niowiht, niowiht, niwiht, niuwet, nievet, nicet, niuit, nieht, niht, niet, nit, M. H. Ger. niht, N. H. Ger. nicht. See AUGHT, and cf. NOUGHT.] Nothing. “To be dissolved and cast away like so many naughts in arithmetic.” Milton.
Doth Job serve God for naught? Job i. 9.
To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to slight; to despise; to revile. “Ye have set at naught all my counsel.” Prov. i. 25.