No | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Nō, adv.

adverb

adv. [A-S. & O. Fries. nā, Skr. na, Per. nah. Cf. NAY.] Nay;—a word of denial or refusal, expressing a negative. Before an adjective or adverb in the comparative degree, it is used instead of not, for in no respect or degree, or not at all; as, no longer, no shorter. After another negative it is emphatic.

There is none righteous; no, not one. Rom. iii. 10.

☞ In early English, no answered questions negatively framed, and no those not including a negative. See YES.

Nō, a.

adjective

a. [O. Eng. non, abbreviated from none, q. v.] Not any; not one; none.

Let there be no strife between me and thee. Gen. xiii. 8.

That goodness is no name, and happiness no dream. Byron.

Nō, n.

noun

n.; pl. NŌES. 1. A refusal by use of the word no; a denial.

Sense 2. A negative vote; one who votes in the negative; as, to call for the ayes and noes; the noes have it.