Nothing

(nŭth'ing, or nŏth'ing) (Synop., § 130), n. [From no and thing; A-S. nān thing, i. e., none thing.] 1. Not any thing; no thing; — opposed to any thing and something. Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. Dryden.

2. Non-existence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness. Shak.
3. Not any thing of account, value, note, or the like; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.

Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought. Is. xli. 24. A man that from very nothing is grown to an unspeakable estate. Shak. 'Tis nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end. Dryden. To make nothing of, to make no difficulty, or to consider as trifling or unimportant. “We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts.” Ray.