Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Nothing \Noth"ing\, adv.
   In no degree; not at all; in no wise.

         Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed.  --Milton.

         The influence of reason in producing our passions is
         nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed.
                                                  --Burke.

   {Nothing off} (Naut.), an order to the steersman to keep the
      vessel close to the wind.

Nothing \Noth"ing\, n. [From no, a. + thing.]
   1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word
      thing); -- opposed to {anything} and {something}.

            Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. --Dryden.

   2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility;
      nothingness. --Shak.

   3. A thing of no account, value, or note; 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.

            'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend,
            This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end.
                                                  --Dryden.

   4. (Arith.) A cipher; naught.

   {Nothing but}, only; no more than. --Chaucer.

   {To make nothing of}.
      (a) To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or
          important. ``We are industrious to preserve our bodies
          from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our
          souls to be slaves to our lusts.'' --Ray.
      (b) Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he
          said.

Source : WordNet®

nothing
     n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
          ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
          done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all
          for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: {nil},
           {nix}, {nada}, {null}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose
          egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}]
     2: a nonexistent thing [syn: {nonentity}]

nothing
     adv : in no way; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his father"