Nī'hil, n.

Nī'hil, n. [Lat.] Nothing.

Nihil album (i. e., white nothing) (Chem.), the white oxide or flowers of zinc, a woolly-looking, white matter, formed by the combustion of zinc, and so minutely divided as to be carried up mechanically and float in the air. — Nihil debet (i. e., he owes nothing) (Law.), the general issue in certain actions of debt. — Nihil dicit (i. e., he says nothing), a failing by the defendant to plead or answer. Tomlins.