aught

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AUGHT, noun aut.[Latin 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. Joshua 21:1.
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