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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AUGHT, n. aut.[L. qui, quae, quod, quid, what, to be the same word varied in orthography. This word should not be written ought.]
1. Any thing, indefinitely.
But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting.
2. Any part, the smallest; a jot or tittle.
There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord had spoken. Josh 21.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]

Merriam Webster's

I. pronoun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ?wiht, from ? ever + wiht creature, thing — more at aye, wight Date: before 12th century 1. anything 2. all, everything <for aught I care> <for aught we know> II. adverb Date: 13th century archaic at all III. noun Etymology: alteration (resulting from false division of a naught) of naught Date: 1872 1. zero, cipher 2. archaic nonentity, nothing

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. (also ought) archaic (usu. implying neg.) anything at all. Etymology: OE awiht f. Gmc 2. var. of OUGHT(2).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Aught Aught, Aucht Aucht, n. [AS. ?ht, fr. [=a]gan to own, p. p. [=a]hte.] Property; possession. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Aught Aught, n. [OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. [=a]wiht, [=a] ever + wiht. [root]136. See Aye ever, and Whit, Wight.] Anything; any part. [Also written ought.] There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken. --Josh. xxi. 45 But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. --Addison.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Aught Aught ([add]t), adv. At all; in any degree. --Chaucer.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Anything.

Moby Thesaurus

aggrandize, any, any one, anybody, anyone, anything, augment, beef up, boost, cipher, either, enlarge, exalt, expand, extend, goose egg, heighten, hike, magnify, multiply, nada, naught, nichts, nihil, nil, nix, no such thing, nothing, nothing at all, nothing on earth, nothing whatever, raise, some, something, somewhat, thing of naught, zero, zilch