a.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. Prov. xx. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]
Go, get you to your house; begone, away!
All will be naught else. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Things naught and things indifferent. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
No man can be stark naught at once. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. nāwiht, nāuht, nāht; ne not + ā ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, and cf. Aught, Not. ]
Doth Job fear God for naught? Job i. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]
To set at naught,
adv. In no degree; not at all. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a naughty manner; wickedly; perversely. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness. [ 1913 Webster ]
I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart. 1 Sam. xvii. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Naughtily; wrongly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
because my parents naughtly brought me up. Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
[ Men ] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]
The other basket had very naughty figs. Jer. xxiv. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ This word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure. [ 1913 Webster ]