{ } n. Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. [ Jocular ] Carlyle. Miss Austen. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Nihility; nothingness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) A sphinx. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to a sphinx, or the family Sphingidae. [ 1913 Webster ]